Spec script option: “Looking for Norma Desmond”

High Road Entertainment has optioned “Looking for Norma Desmond” by writer Ross Schwartz:

The script takes inspiration from the Hollywood classic “Sunset Boulevard” in telling the complicated love story of a struggling writer and the aging former starlet whose comeback he engineers. In “Sunset,” Gloria Swanson played fading star Desmond, whose career arc parallels that of Schwartz’s lead character, Betty Moran.

Schwartz comes from a long line of Hwood writers and producers: He is the son of Sherwood Schwartz, brother of Lloyd J. Schwartz, and Hope Juber, nephew of Al Schwartz, and Elroy Schwartz, cousin of Douglas Schwartz.