Spec script sale: “Good Looking”

Missed this one (3/29/09). A second sale for screenwriter Chris McCoy in a month as DreamWorks picks up rom-com “Good Looking”:

In a funky tweak on “Minority Report,” McCoy’s newest project posits a future dating service that matches soulmates around the world without fail. The story line follows a guy who has the audacity to reject the person chosen for him.

McCoy developed the idea last year while on a working vacation in London, where he noticed the city’s near-universal coverage by surveillance camera to deter crime. He started musing on alternative uses for that collected personal information.

“If someone could organize that information and know what everyone in London was doing and eating and who they’re dating and who they’re going home with, then that’s an incredibly powerful tool,” McCoy said. “I think I have an oddball brain or something, but then I started thinking about how all that stuff could be applied to matchmaking. It would totally subvert Match.com and eHarmony, (where) I think people lie about who they are or they say what they think people will want them to be. But ‘Good Looking,’ my service, knows who they are and can put them together.”

McCoy earlier in March sold an untitled project.