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NEW ATTACHMENTS
Sand Castle
Logline: United States soldiers fight to save an Iraqi village.
Production Company: Mark Gordon Company
Producer: Mark Gordon
Cast:
Nicholas Hoult
Writer: Chris Roessner
Director: Seb Edwards
SSN Insight: Project marks the feature directorial debut for commercial director Seb Edwards. Also, writer Chris Roessner was formerly Mark Gordon’s assistant and this script made the 2012 Black List.
Wake
Logline: A teenage girl has the ability to enter people's dreams, but she gets sucked into a terrible nightmare and goes from observer to participant.
Studio/Distributor: Paramount
Production Companies: Gotham/Principal, Hope Town Entertainment, MTV Films
Producers: Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Lindsay Williams, Jodi Zuckerman, Tish Cyrus, Steven Schneider, Jason Blum, Eddie Gamarra (Executive Producer)
Cast: Miley Cyrus
Writers:
James Ward Byrkit (current draft), Alex Manugian (current draft), Christopher Landon (previous draft)
Details: Based on the novel
Wake, written by Lisa McMann and published by Simon Pulse on March 4, 2008.
SSN Insight: Project marks reunion of the
Rango writers for the first time since
Coherence.
Untitled Universal/Girl’s Trip Comedy Project
Logline: Storyline is under wraps.
Studio/Distributor: Universal
Production Company: Will Packer Productions
Producers: Will Packer, Malcolm Lee (Executive Producer)
Writer:
Erica Rivinoja
Director: Malcolm Lee
SSN Insight: Project marks Will Packer’s first under his new first-look deal at Universal and under his new company banner.
NEW PROJECTS
The Wolfman
Logline: A detective who's also a werewolf comes to terms with his affliction when he begins to use it to punish bad guys, like a serial killer who’s murdering young girls.
Production Companies: Macmillan Entertainment, Everest Entertainment Group
Producers: Brendan Deneen, Sean Davis
Details: Based on the novel
The Wolfman, written by Nicholas Pekearo and published by Tor Books in 2009.
SSN Insight: Project source material was written in 2008 by a later-slain NYPD auxiliary officer and was published posthumously a year later. Macmillan Publishing's Brendan Deneen and Everest’s Sean Davis are working with author Nicholas Pekearo’s mother, Iola Latman, to adapt the story for the screen.
The Outliers
Logline: When a teenager gets involved with a group called the Outliers who harness intuition and use it as a psychological weapon, they decide to destroy her and she has to run for her life.
Studio/Distributor: Lionsgate
Production Companies: Mandeville Films/TV, Pacific Standard
Producers: Todd Lieberman, David Hoberman, Reese Witherspoon, Bruna Papandrea
Details: Based on the young adult trilogy
The Outliers, written by Kimberly McCreight, the first novel to be published in late 2015.
SSN Insight: Lionsgate is hoping to have success off of this young-adult trilogy as they did with
The Hunger Games franchise.
Imaginary Foe
Logline: Storyline is under wraps.
Studio/Distributor: Warner Bros.
Production Company: KatzSmith Productions
Producers: David Katzenberg, Seth Grahame-Smith
Writer: Rocco Pucillo
SSN Insight: Project marks the first sale for writer Rocco Pucillo who won the top prize at the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards in 2013.
