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Disney Wants You to 'Fear Phil'

Filed under: Comedy », Deals », Disney », Scripts »

With a name like "Fear Phil," I can't help but imagine a comedic horror movie with a larger-than-life, bobble-headed Dr. Phil running around, spreading doctorly advice through an almost disembodied, booming voice, and killing those who don't follow his suggestions. (Or maybe he only kills those that do, so there's always more people for his talk show...) But this isn't about Oprah-loved doctors -- it's about those pesky, preying insurance salesmen.

Variety reports that Jack Angelo and Sam Brown's new comedy pitch Fear Phil has been picked up by Disney for Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot to produce. The film, which cost Disney high six against low seven figures, focuses on "an insurance salesman who makes a living preying on other people's fears, only to wake up and find that his own worst fears are coming true." Oh, the bite of poetic justice, or tide-turning karma.

There's no further word about the project yet, nor word on whether Shankman will just produce the comedy, or direct it as well. In the meantime, Angelo and Brown also have Undateable floating around on the Disney lot -- a film that was picked up just over one year ago. April is definitely their month of magic. Stay tuned to see what they sell next year!

Disney Buys 'Undateable' Comedy Pitch

Filed under: Comedy », Romance », Deals », Disney », Scripts »

Jerry once said on an episode of Seinfeld that 90 to 95 percent of the population is undateable. "Undateable!" Disney is banking on all those lonely people out there being movie fans. Screenwriters Jack Angelo and Sam Brown just sold a comedy pitch to Disney for a script called Undateable. The pitch is the true story of Brian Wolf. After all else had failed, he created a website called settleforbrian.com in order to snag himself a girlfriend. "Our management company, Fuse, alerted us to the site as we were fishing around for our next subject matter," says Angelo. "It fell squarely into what we call 'bromantic comedies,' which are romantic comedies that guys actually want to see."

Above you'll see the photo Wolf has posted on his home page, a photo he says "may be the worst picture I've ever taken." Wolf's site is all about lowering expectations. "I know what you're thinking," he says in the site's introduction. "Settling is admitting defeat. Only losers settle, right? Wrong. Everybody settles. There are no perfect relationships. Do you think you're going to end up happy holding out for Mr. Right? You won't. You'll end up old, alone, and miserable. You don't want that. And I don't want that. So I'd like to propose an alternative: Settle for Brian." For those of you currently in the Can't Get Laid Brigade, take heart -- the site worked. Mr. Wolf got himself a girlfriend. In fact, he was planning on shutting the site down until the writers called. Be sure and check out the "Pros and Cons" list if you go to the site, there's some funny stuff in there.

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