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NEW ATTACHMENTS
Captain Underpants
Logline: Two mischievous kids hypnotize their school principal and turn him into their comic book creation Captain Underpants.
Studio/Distributor: DreamWorks Animation
Cast:
Ed Helms, Kevin Hart, Thomas Middleditch, Nick Kroll, Jordan Peele
Writer: Nick Stoller
Director: Rob Letterman
Details: Based on the children's book series
Captain Underpants, written by Dav Pilkey with the first book,
The Adventures of Captain Underpants, published by Scholastic on September 1, 1997.
SSN Insight: Letterman and Stoller previously worked together on 2010's
Gulliver's Travels, which Letterman directed (it was his live-action debut) and Stoller co-wrote.
Selma
Logline: The historic -- and often violent -- marches that took place in Selma, Alabama in 1965 marked the political and emotional peak of the civil rights movement.
Financier: Pathe International
Production Companies: Cloud Eight Films, Plan B Entertainment,
Harpo Films
Producers:
Oprah Winfrey, Christina Colson, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Lee Daniels, Cameron McCracken
Cast: David Oyelowo
Writer: Paul Webb
Director: Ava DuVernay
SSN Insight: David Oyelowo, who starred with Oprah in Lee Daniels’
The Butler, will play Martin Luther King, Jr. in Selma, re-teaming the three.
NEW PROJECTS
The Director
Logline: Graham Weber has been director of the CIA for less than a week when he learns that the agency has been hacked, and he must rely on the unstable in-house geek for help.
Studio/Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Producers: Scott Rudin, Mike DeLuca
Writer: Paul Greengrass
Director: Paul Greengrass
Details: Based on the novel
The Director, written by David Ignatius and to be published by W. W. Norton & Company on June 2, 2014.
SSN Insight: This is the first deal for Michael De Luca as production president of Sony Pictures and he acquired a book that is not yet published.
The Prey (remake)
Logline: A low-level crook flees prison to save his family from his former cellmate, who is a sadistic serial killer.
Studio/Distributor: DreamWorks Studios
Producers: Charles S. Cohen, Daniel Battsek (Executive Producer)
Writer: Luc Bossi (Story By)
Details: Remake of the film
La Proie, (2011/France) directed by Eric Valette.
SSN Insight: Luc Bossi was one of the writers on the original French films and he will be involved in developing the English language version.
Security
Logline: A mall security guard must protect a female witness from a gang of thugs after all communication is eliminated from a storm.
Studio/Distributor: Nu Image/Millennium Films
Production Company: Nu Image/Millennium Films
Producers: Jonathan Yunger, Jeffrey Greenstein, David Harris, Avi Lerner (Executive Producer), Trevor Short (Executive Producer), Boaz Davidson (Executive Producer), John Thompson (Executive Producer)
Writer: Tim Sullivan
Details: Spec script brought to Nu Image/Millennium Films by David Harris.
SSN Insight: This marks the first pic for producers Jonathan Yunger and Jeffrey Greenstein, who started out as Avi Lerner’s assistants. David Harris and Jeffrey Greenstein were Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity brothers at University of Central Florida.
