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NEW ATTACHMENTS
Grasshopper Jungle
Logline: An Iowa teenager and his friends unleash a plague of 6-foot-tall praying mantises on the populace.
Studio/Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Production Company: Matt Tolmach Productions,
Big Talk Productions
Producers: Matt Tolmach, Scott Rosenberg,
Nira Park
Writer: Scott Rosenberg
Director:
Edgar Wright
Details: Based on the young adult novel
Grasshopper Jungle, written by Andrew Smith and published by Dutton in 2014.
SSN Insight: After dropping out of
Ant-Man in May, Edgar Wright quickly finds his next project to direct.
Timeless
Logline: After losing his wife, a man invests the inheritance money in building a time travel device so he can see her one last time.
Production Companies: Defiant Pictures
Producers: Sunil Perkash, Nicolas Vienberg, Lucas Jarach
Writer: Bill Kelly
Director:
Carl Tibbetts
SSN Insight: Project marks director Carl Tibbetts’ sophomore film that’s also in the same sci-fi genre as his debut
Retreat.
Untitled Serbian Jewel Thieves Project
Logline: A notorious Serbian gang called "The Pink Panther Gang" pulls off a high-end jewelry heist in Dubai.
Studio/Distributor: Relativity Media
Production Companies: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Producers: Ryan Kavanaugh, Dawn Ostroff, Tucker Tooley (Executive Producer), Jeremy Steckler (Executive Producer)
Writer:
Christian Gudegast
Details: Based on the GQ article "Serbia's Super Thieves" written by Ilan Greenberg; published May 6, 2010.
SSN Insight: Project marks a reteaming of Gudegast and Relativity Media who has another project in development with the studio
Den of Thieves and the in production documentary
Shotcaller.
NEW PROJECTS
Untitled (Warner Bros./Arabian Nights Project)
Logline: A king who marries a new woman every night, but then kills her in the morning, is outwitted by one young woman who tells him a tale night after night.
Studio/Distributor: Warner Bros.
Production Companies: 3 Arts Entertainment
Producers: Erwin Stoff
Writers: David Weil (treatment)
Details: Based on
The Arabian Nights, first published in English in 1706, also known as
One Thousand and One Nights, originally a collection stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age, which spanned from approximately 622 A.D. to 1258 A.D.
SSN Insight: Warner Bros. makes a unique deal by pre-emptively buying a “script-ment” by Black List newcomer, David Weil for a seven film franchise.
Untitled (Working Title/Famous Five Project)
Logline: A group of four young adults and their dog go on an amazing adventure.
Production Working Title Films
Producers: Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan
Details: Based on the childrens’ book series "The Famous Five" written by Enid Blyton. The first book, "Five on a Treasure Island," was published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1942.
SSN Insight: Enid Blyton’s books are one of the highest selling children’s books in the world. Working Title is hoping to tap into that audience that has bought over 100 million copies.
