Script Sales: The Harris Co takes on the world
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- Paramount Pictures announced a remake of the 1973 psychological thriller Don’t Look Now. The original follows a couple who go to Venice, Italy, to recuperate after their daughter's death and find themselves confronted with visual premonitions that may reveal their daughter's presence. Andrea Berloff worte the script.
- On her deathbed, a dying young woman tells her husband and young son that she will return to them. A year later, father and son happen upon a woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to the dead woman in Be With You. Warner Bros. Pictures announced a remake of the 2004 Japanese film which was based on a novel by Takuji Ichikawa. Jennifer Garner will produce and star. No word on a writer.
- The Harris Co. bought the comedy thriller Kevin Approaches by actor Patrick Breen. No plot details have been given. Toni Kotite will direct and Mystic River's Laura Linney will star.
- The Harris Co. also bought A Hole in the Earth, a family drama about a man who must come to terms with the death of his family. Three to Tango's Rodney Patrick Vaccaro wrote the script. Paul A. Kaufman will co-produce and direct. He directed such tv movies as Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt and Surviving Gilligan's Island: The Incredibly True Story of the Longest Three Hour Tour in History. William H. Macy will star.
- The Harris Co. also announced A Thousand Clowns, a remake of the 1965 film, which was based on the play by Herb Gardner. The story follows an out-of-work TV writer, constantly fighting the system, who must find a conventional job if he is to remain the guardian of his 12-year old nephew entrusted to his care. Crash scribe Bobby Moresco wrote the comedy.
- And The Harris Co. capped things off today with The Girl With the Golden Gun. A
True story of U.S. law enforcement officer Bonnie Tischler, who broke
the BCCI Bank Case, one of the world's biggest money-laundering
schemes. The Mambo Kings scribe Cynthia Cidre wrote the drama. This one could be good.
- Avatar bought Lifers for low-six figures. The script follows a boy and a girl who must solve a mystery involving a futuristic law system under which children born with a certain genetic code are automatically imprisoned. The sci-fi action script was written by two film editors, Luke Borghi and Bart Rachmil on spec.
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