Spec Script Sales Analysis 2013: First-Timers
As we continue our analysis of spec script sales in 2013, today we check out the first-timers, writers who broke into the business by selling a spec script.
Camden — Lucas Carter (The Exchange) — 4/2/13
When domestic terrorists take over an Ivy League campus, a young Secret Service agent must do everything he can to protect his charge: The First Daughter.
Broken Cove — Declan O’Dwyer (Thunder Road) — 4/3/13
The crime thriller follows a half-Irish half-British man who lives in London but moves back home after discovering his brother has been killed.
Omega Point — Cameron Alexander (CBS Films) — 4/8/13
The story centers on a young man who comes across a mysterious crash site in the woods where he discovers and befriends a god-like artificial intelligence desperate to escape earth.
Wildflowers — Jim Stansberry, Annika Tuneld (108 Production) — 4/23/13
When times of financial crisis leaves a new couple with nothing left to lose, they set off on a crime spree, slipping into a romance as hot as the Arizona desert they blaze through. Dom and Stella are in love, on the run and in their 60s.
Home Invasion — Joseph Dembner (Voltage Pictures) — 4/24/13
A family imprisoned in their own home by intruders who play a life-and-death game in which the mysterious rules become clear as the night unfolds.
Young Agatha — Jamie Dawson (BCDF Pictures) — 6/5/13
During WWI, years before becoming a world renowned author, young nurse Agatha Christie undertakes the investigation of a wounded soldier who was murdered while under her care.
Outside the Wire — Rob Yescomb (42 / Odd Fellows Entertainment) — 6/20/13
N/A, but said to include military and sci-fi elements.
Deprivation — Jason Doty (Focus Features) — 7/25/13
A desperate man who, three days after his family dies mysteriously in a fire, discovers he can travel back in time if he never falls asleep.
Section 6 — Aaron Berg (Universal Pictures) — 10/12/13
In 1919, his intelligence section, called Section 1C, was going to be folded into MI5, which is similar to our FBI in that it focuses on domestic threats. Spies coming through 1C all came from Oxford and Cambridge, aristocrats who stuck out like sore thumbs., Cummings got hold of a blue collar war veteran, trained him and sent him on a crucial mission: an attack on the British embassy in Russia (in which is now St. Petersberg) led to the theft of coded assassination orders signed by the King of England. The spy was tasked with recovering them because had they been discovered, WWII would have begun with those countries on opposite sides. Cummings etched his place in history and proved the need for MI6. The script was unusual in that is was peppered with actual newspaper clippings from the period to inform of how the stories were covered by British papers back then.
Fetch — Kristen Vincent, Tim Moran (Paramount Insurge) — 10/30/13
Described as an offbeat buddy comedy involving a uniquely talented dog and his owner.
Line of Duty — Cory Miller (Lotus Entertainment) — 11/7/13
Miller spent four years working as an investigator in the NYPD Internal Affairs unit. Drawing on his experiences, Miller wrote Duty as a modern retelling of Shakespeare’s Macbeth through a police-thriller filter. In a tone similar to The Departed, it focuses on the tragic rise and fall of a heroic NYPD narcotics detective who is pushed to the dark side of police corruption.
Stolen — Joe Burke, Kevin Oestenstad (1984 Private Defense Contractors) — 11/13/13
The script from newcomers Burke and Oestenstad follows a young couple from the city, Josh and Allison, whose short trip turns into a rural nightmare when Allison steps out of a quiet local movie theater to answer her phone and never returns. So much for rewarding polite movie theater etiquette. With only a dying phone and a road map, a panicked Josh runs into dead end after dead end and must choose between abandoning his hunt for the love of his life or fighting the bloody battle that awaits on the gravel road that separates them.
From Here to Albion — Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvani (Participant Media) — 11/14/13
The story is set in a coastal English town, where a tragic accident sets a chain of violence in motion and a malevolent stranger seeks revenge on the perpetrators and the detective who covered it up.
Time Tweaker David Crabtree (Lionsgate) — 12/5/13
Described as an event-style movie with sci-fi and time-jumping elements.
Congratulations to all the first-timers!
That’s it, a full week’s worth of recaps and analysis of the 2013 spec script sales market. Please post your overall reactions and thoughts in comments.
To see all of the posts from this week’s analysis, go here.
Now Hollywood, start buying some spec scripts!
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