Spec Script Sale: “Take My Wife”

Per Deadline and confirmed by DoneDealPro, Lionsgate nabs comedy spec “Take My Wife” from writers Greg Coolidge & Kirk Ward with Tyler Perry and Dwayne Johnson attached:

Perry will play a recently divorced man who realizes the only way to get out of paying alimony to his ex is to find her a new husband. He sets about transforming a rough-around-the-edges guy (Johnson) into a paramour who can be her ideal mate. After his Cyrano act creates the new love match, the divorced guy falls back in love with his wife and has to compete for her affections.

A nifty spin to get into the conventional romantic triangle.

Coolidge and Ward, actors who have added writing to their resume, are repped by CAA.

By my count, that is the 37th spec script to sell in 2010.

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