Spec script sale: “Last Stand”

Lionsgate with preemptive purchase of action thriller spec “Last Stand” from writer Andrew Knauer:

The story, described as having shades of “Gone in 60 Seconds” and “High Noon,” features a Gumpert Apollo, a race car used by drug smugglers, and it centers on a cartel leader that uses it to break out of a courthouse. As he speeds to the Mexican border, the only thing standing in his way is a border-town sheriff and his inexperienced staff.

Knauer is a former assistant at Media Talent Group and before that interned at Lionsgate. In a move that is sure to fuel many a writing fantasy, he quit his job to write full-time, with “Stand” the resulting screenplay.

He is repped by WME and Energy Entertainment.

This is what happens: People who work in movie development read so many crap scripts, they figure, “I can do that.” Some of them do. And some of them are successful, like Mr. Knauer.

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