Spec script sale: “Beautiful Girl”

Per Variety, Screen Gems picks up spec thriller “Beautiful Girl” from writer Michael Cunningham:

Story concerns a shy but brainy high school girl who returns for senior year after having slimmed down six dress sizes. She finds herself flirting with the handsome English lit teacher, but the mutual crush turns deadly when the teacher’s obsession with the student compels him to exact maniacal revenge on everyone who was cruel to her.

Okay, let’s see…
“The Biggest Loser” meets Lolita? 
“Dance Your Ass Off” meets The Crush? 

Also interesting in that you wouldn’t expect to see someone who adapted a Virginia Woolf novel into the movie The Hours (2002) to be writing a genre piece:

“While I was writing about Virginia Wolff, my mind was never far removed from the idea of girls in bikinis being hacked up by guys wearing hockey masks, and I vowed that if I ever had a good idea, I would write one of these scary movies,” Cunningham told Daily Variety.

Cunningham is repped by CAA and lit agency Brandt & Hochman.

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