Recon Literary

Between November 1st and November 30th, we tracked a total of 23 new feature specs out on the market. November tends to be a mixed bag year over year. This month traditionally marks the end of the literary calendar where most agents and managers are wrapping up going out with new material.

Recon Literary is out with 8 DAYS A WEEK by Ian Southwood. A busy, single father invents a pill that lands him in an eighth day of the week.

Kaplan Stahler Agency and Recon Literary are out with ESCAPE OF THE ASSASSIN by John James Halligan. A young warden and his guards plunge into the rugged Tennessee mountains in a desperate hunt for a man.

In 1997 Andre Agassi was ranked 141st in the world, married to a celebrity and consumed with hate for the game that gave him everything. Hitting rock bottom, he embarks on a soul searching mission to slay the nightmare dragon of his youth and feel the power of true love on his way to the 1999 French Open and maybe the greatest comeback in sports history.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 3.08.38 PM The larger than life journey of André René Roussimoff, the man who would become Andre the Giant, and the giant who would go on to become an icon. From his humble farm life in rural France, to the largest sell out events the world has ever seen, this is the story of the man who sacrificed everything to entertain the masses, and the personal battles he faced on his way to becoming a legend. Think Big Fish meets The Wrestler.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 3.08.38 PM After the death of their mother, an absent father takes his two sons to the family cabin on a remote Alaskan island, but when disaster strikes they are forced to survive months alone in the frigid wilderness.