Spec Script Sale: “Nemesis”

Warner Bros. acquires spec script “Nemesis” written by Christopher Wheeler. From Deadline:

I don’t recall ever writing a spec script deal story that includes setting someone to do a rewrite. But the Warner Bros deal includes the hiring of a new writer in Craig Rosenberg, the Australian writer who has the Takashi Shimizu -directed 7500 for CBS Films and The Quiet Ones for Lionsgate. How did this happen? Wheeler, the Australian writer who was known as “The Film Pope,” died four years ago at age 40 of natural causes. His script went dormant until Safehouse’s Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell met with Zareh Nalbandian and Jason Lust of Animal Logic and got it going again.

This speaks directly to The Spirit of the Spec: Write a story and put it out there. It can work for you… even if you’ve been deceased for four years.

By my count, this is the 79th spec script sale in 2013.

There were 89 spec script sales year-to-date in 2012.

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