EXCLUSIVE: After seeing his Black Checklist spec Girl of the Hour produced as Anna Kendrick’s function directorial debut and bought to Netflix in a bidding warfare, screenwriter Ian McDonald has bought one other challenge — an untitled thriller function pitch — to the streamer.
Plot particulars are below wraps, aside from the movie being set on this planet of cults. Academy Award nominees Andrea Berloff and John Gatins will produce below their total deal on the streamer, the place they presently have The Final Mrs. Parrish and Struggle for ’84 in manufacturing/submit.
Promoting to Netflix for round $11M after premiering to vital acclaim at TIFF, McDonald’s Girl of the Hour is a fictionalized tackle the story of serial killer Rodney Alcala and his notorious look on The Relationship Recreation within the midst of a years-long homicide spree within the Seventies. The story is advised from the standpoint of Kendrick’s aspiring actress Cheryl, who’s unwittingly courted by a killer (Daniel Zovatto) on the present. McDonald wrote the movie on spec, with AGC Studios and Bondit Media Capital in the end coming ahead to finance the challenge. Roy Lee produced alongside Miri Yoon, J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules. Additionally an EP on that challenge, McDonald is repped by CAA, Leisure 360, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
Oscar-nominated for his or her writing on Straight Outta Compton and Flight, respectively, Berloff & Gatins extra not too long ago co-wrote The Final Mrs. Parrish, against the law thriller primarily based on the novel by Liv Constantine that Robert Zemeckis directed with Jennifer Lopez starring. Lopez performs a con artist (Lopez) who targets a rich couple — the Parrishes — as her subsequent victims. She infiltrates their lives with the grasp plan of turning into the following Mrs. Parrish, solely to find that the spouse’s life is way extra difficult than she might have imagined. Alongside Andy Weiss, the pair additionally co-wrote Struggle for ’84, through which Jamie Foxx performs the coach who helped the U.S. Olympic Boxing Crew to rebuild from scratch after a devasting airplane crash.
Additionally not too long ago in enterprise with Netflix (and Jennifer Lopez) as co-writer of its hit motion thriller The Mom, Berloff is repped by CAA, Leisure 360, and McKuin Frankel Whitehead.
Gatins has additionally labored on the likes of Actual Metal, Kong: Cranium Island, and Coach Carter. He’s repped by UTA and Felker Toczek Suddleson.
