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Monday, December 05, 2005

The Rebound Guy


I had jotted this down on my ever growing spec idea list about 2 months ago. I'm sure it happens to tons of people all the time, but at least this gives me an indication that I can come up with some commercially viable ideas. Gotta work harder and get these things written.

Title: Rebound Guy
Log Line: A carousing bachelor, who only dates girls on the rebound, is secure in the knowledge that they never want a serious relationship after a long commitment. When he falls in love with a girl on the rebound, he inserts a "rebound guy" in front of him and positions himself as the real guy.
Writer: Jennifer Robinson and Dyanne Stempel
Agent: United Talent Agency
Buyer: Twentieth Century Fox
Price: n/a
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Logged: 12/5/05
More: Pitch. Seed Productions' Hugh Jackman & John Palermo will produce. Hugh Jackman will star.

posted by writebrother @ 10:49 PM  

8 Comments:

  • At 7:59 PM, Blogger ScriptWeaver said…

    But it looks like this is from the perspective of two women, so just give yours an urban twist and you've snagged a different market.

    Unless Hugh drops out of this one and Will Smith jumps in.

     

  • At 10:01 PM, Blogger writebrother said…

    I'll chalk it up as a loss. I've got a lot more ideas that I thought were better anyway. This could definitely end up being a wack chick flick. I don't know if Hugh Jackman has the comedic chops for the role.

     

  • At 6:54 AM, Blogger The Moviequill said…

    has happened to me twice this year already..and on the same screenplay! I made a change to the first one and then here comes another one with my new twist...is someone looking over my shoulder?

     

  • At 7:16 AM, Blogger oneslackmartian said…

    Haha, I love the logline. I wasn't expecting that.

    I once had a logline about a kid "who sees dead people." It wasn't anything close to Sixth Sense, but I felt like an arrow pierced my heart.

    Now I'm working on a comedy about an assassin, and there are about a dozen comedy-assassin films in production or in the can or in the theaters.

    Maybe a comedy-hepatitis film.

     

  • At 1:24 PM, Anonymous Rob said…

    This was sold as a pitch. That means nobody has written anything. Those writers were about as far along on the idea as you were. Have you checked to see if your spec list has been hacked? ;)

    If you have an agent at UTA, you can sell pitches...without writing anything. So don't get ahead of yourself. Worry about getting a big-time agent first.

     

  • At 1:39 PM, Blogger writebrother said…

    Selling pitches is the definitely the shit. If I ever got to the point where I could do that I'd be time to start my own production company so I could not only sell a pitch but also have someone else write it. First I've got to get some legit writing samples though.

     

  • At 11:42 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    You want to hear a sad story? I actually came up with this idea and wrote the screenplay (my first) long before the pitch was announced in Dec 2005. I actually had an option contract in my hands and decided to check to see if the website was available. THEN I saw the article on Variety.com..

    Needless to say, the production company decided to look elsewhere for original scripts. And there went my first chance at making money in this business.

     

  • At 11:44 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Oh, for what it's worth, the premise of my script was slightly different than described by the Fox project, but close enough to not even let me waste my time pursuing it.

     

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