Spec Script Deal: Untitled Adolf Eichmann Project

MGM made a pre-emptive deal to acquire untitled thriller written by Matthew Orton. Via Deadline:

MGM has made a pre-emptive deal for an untitled spec script by British scribe Matthew Orton about the team that hunted down and captured Adolf Eichmann, one of the major architects of the Holocaust.

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The thriller spec is closer to the tone of Argo than Munich in creating thriller stakes in the manhunt for one of the most diabolical war criminals of the 20th century.

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Writer Orton is out of the UK, majored in history at Oxford, and his spec CLEAN made the 2014 Brit List. He is mentored by Bridge Of Spies scribe Matt Charman, who he met via the Guiding Lights program.

Orton is repped by The Agency and Grandview.

By my count, this is the 53rd spec script deal in 2015.

There were 57 spec script deals year-to-date in 2014.