Spec Script Sale: Untitled Dean Devlin and Paul Guyot project

Skydance Productions spends big to acquire an untitled disaster spec script from writers Dean Devlin and Paul Guyot. From Deadline:

Devlin returns to the global destruction sandbox he played in when he and then-partner Roland Emmerich sold their Independence Day spec for millions, a guaranteed Fox green light and release date, and a global gross north of $800 million. They continued the destruction with Godzilla. While Emmerich continued crushing the planet with The Day After and 2012 (he and Devlin are working on two Independence Day sequels), Devlin formed Electric Entertainment and has put together movies (one was Flyboys, which featured avid aviator Ellison onscreen), and the Noah Wyle telepic series The Librarian. Devlin is currently exec producer of the TNT series Leverage. Guyot, Devlin’s co-writer on the spec, is supervising producer of that series.

No details on how the script destroys the world.

Deal is reportedly in the seven figures.

Devlin is repped by CAA. Guyot is repped by UTA and Circle of Confusion.

By my count, this is the 1st spec script sale in 2013.

At this point last year, there were 2 spec sales.

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