Spec Script Sale: “Maggie”
Bekmambetov Projects has acquired zombie spec script “Maggie” from writer John Scott III. Per Deadline:
Maggie is a 16-year old girl from a town in middle America who becomes infected by a zombie. Much the way that Danny Boyle changed the lumbering zombie stereotype by speeding up the undead in 28 Days Later, Maggie changes the lightning quick infection period evident in most zombie films, where victims become zombies in minutes. It will take six months for Maggie to turn, and the film tracks the transformation as she stays with her family.
Scott is a first-timer:
When he’s not writing scripts, the writer programs satellite guidance systems for NASA. He works at the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, which takes photos of X-Ray photons in deep space.
Scott is repped by Verve.
By my count, this is the 22nd spec script to sell in 2011.
The 22nd spec script didn’t sell last year until May 26th, so sales are up year-to-date.
UPDATE: The deal fell through. Via Deadline:
The spec was close to a deal with Timur Bekmambetov (I’d heard it closed), but I’m told the exclusive negotiation has ended without a deal in place.
I will amend yearly spec sales in my mid-year spec script sales report.