Between December 1st and December 31st, we tracked a total of 13 new feature specs out on the market. While that doesn’t sound like much, it is quite the jump from last year. More on that later. In comparing it to last month, we saw a 43% decrease in material out, which surprises no one.
The Gernert Company
A young black man is put on death row after he is forced to confess to a crime he didn’t commit.
The storyline is under wraps but is said to follow a criminal who, instead of serving a prison sentence, has his memories erased.
A woman adjusts her lifestyle as she transitions from working in the world of publishing to the tech bubble that is Silicon Valley.
Every night, Marc Laurent, an American hostage in Pakistan, is visited by a woman he knows as Josephine. They begin telling each other stories and eventually, a father and daughter find their way to understand each other again.
When people return defective tapes to a video story, employee Jeremy discovers dark and sometimes violent home video sequences inserted into the middle of each movie.
The action thriller from former Marine Betley is being called one of the best debuts in years as it starts to gain some serious heat on the TV and film rights market.
A former Marine is contracted by the FBI to stop a shadowy mercenary syndicate who will stop at nothing to retrieve a flag that contains confidential information.
Chris Pavone has a new thriller in the works, and although it has yet to be released, it’s already turning heads on the rights market. The Travelers finds a travel writer caught up in a deadly conspiracy with global implications.
A travel writer on assignment in the wine region of Argentina meets a beautiful woman makes him an offer he can’t refuse. As he’s drawn further into a tangled web of international intrigue, it becomes clear that nothing about him was ever ordinary.
Bestselling author John Grisham is back on the rights with new novel Rogue Lawyer that is primed for the television market. The book is repped by David Gernet at The Gernet Company and they are already looking at offers.
Sebastian Rudd defends people other lawyers won’t go near: a drug-addled, tattooed kid rumored to be in a satanic cult, who is accused of molesting and murdering two little girls; a vicious crime lord on death row; a homeowner arrested for shooting at a SWAT team that mistakenly invaded his house.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist is drawn back into his crime-ridden Boston neighborhood to investigate a series of murders that appear to be the work of his childhood friend.
Logline: A boy and his friends team up to rescue his father from a Roman general after a “time collision” eliminates the barriers between past, present, and future. Described as in the vein of “Avatar” and “Harry Potter,” with franchise elements.
Logline: Two ex-lovers –one CIA spy and one ex-CIA spy– meet for dinner and to reminisce
