Spec Script Sale: “Step Dawg”

Per IOTG, Morgan Creek has bought comedy spec “Step Dawg” from writer Jeff Tetrault. Plot details from Deadline:

Morgan Creek bought Step Dawg, a comic script by Jeff Tetreault about a 30-ish man who returns home to discover that his single mom plans to marry his former high school stoner best friend. WME sold the script with Energy Entertainment. It’s the second script, but first sale for Tetreault. His first effort was widely admired, but didn’t sell because of obvious complications. Called Me and My Penis, the comedy focused on a womanizing man who awakens to discover his penis has gone AWOL and refuses to return until he reforms his callous ways. Tetreault found a more deal-friendly premise in Step Dawg.

Even more re Tetreault, this from his mother who blogs at The Midlife Musings of a Post Menopausal Matron:

Thursday, June 24, 2010 

My Son, the Screenwriter

Meet my oldest son, Jeff Tetreault, aka Jeffy T, who left Tennessee three years ago with nothing but a suitcase and a heart full of dreams. He just made his first screenplay sale in Hollywood to Morgan Creek and is represented by Energy Entertainment and William Morris Endeavor.

My son always has held tight to his dream and is a risk-taker, something that didn’t sit well with the officials and some of his professors at his alma mater, Western Kentucky University, where he graduated in 2006 with a double major in English and Sociology. That school did him no favors and tried its best to tell him he was a no-talent failure. I would not recommend it to anyone who dares to color outside the lines.

A couple of years ago, he won first place honors in the Tennessee Screenwriting Competition and a year earlier won honorable mention in the Slamdance Screenwriting Competition. He’s been reading and writing ever since he was about two or three.

Anyway, I’m a proud mom for sure and thrilled he did this all by himself. It’s kind of like watching him take those first faltering steps at nine months and that first two-wheel bicycle ride at age three.

Congrats to Jeff and Mom.

He is repped by WME and Energy.

By my count, that is the 24th spec script to sell in 2010.

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