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Moon People for Columbia

by Martha Fischer Aug 10th 2006 // 5:00PM

Filed under: Comedy, Deals, Universal, Scripts, Newsstand, Dreamworks

These are good times for comedian Demetri Martin. In just a few years, the Yale graduate and NYU law school dropout has won a comedy award at Edinburgh's Fringe Festival, scored a high-profile gig writing for Conan O'Brien, worked as a Daily Show correspondent and also starred in his own Comedy Central special. Oh, and he's sold two comedy pitches to major Hollywood studios -- I'd say that's a pretty good three-year run.

The first pitch, which sold to Dreamworks earlier this year, was entitled Will and will be executive-produced by Scot Armstrong, one of Old School's writers. Pitch number two, called Moon People, was just bought by Columbia and sounds potentially very cool, assuming it's been placed in the correct hands. The movie will detail the struggles of "a group of people who return to assimilate on Earth years after they were sent to colonize the moon." Nice, huh? Martin himself will write the screenplay and then hand it over to Ali G Show writer-director James Bobin to direct.

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Tags: Ali G, AliG, cinematical, Comedy Central, Demetri Martin, DemetriMartin, Dreamworks, film, James Bobin, JamesBobin, Moon People, movie, Scot Armstrong, ScotArmstrong, Universal, Will

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