Spec Script Sale: “Heat Seekers”

Scott Myers

27 Apr 2010 • 1 min read

Variety is reporting (subscription required):

Paramount has scooped up George Mahaffey’s spec script “Heat Seekers” for Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes to produce.

Logline under wraps. Supposedly high six-figures. Preemptive buy.

Mahaffey is repped by Paradigm and Generate.

By my count, this is the 16th spec script to sell in 2010.

UPDATE: From THR (no subscription required):

In the mold of “Fast & Furious” and “Point Break,” “Heatseekers” follows a young ex-military pilot who infiltrates a gang of aerial “pirates” working out of Bangkok and takes part in an elaborate tower heist using powered gliders and parachutes.

Sounds like an inventive plot. And for all you lawyers yearning to become screenwriters:

Repped by Paradigm and Generate, Mahaffey is an attorney-turned-screenwriter who has sold an original pitch to Thousand Words and worked on an action feature script for producer Arnold Koppelson (“Se7en”).

Notable lawyer screenwriters include Ron Bass and David Kelley.

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