EXCLUSIVE: The first splashy material sale coming after the end of the writer’s strike has an appropriate title.
Sony Pictures won a spirited weekend bidding battle for the Jack Follman short story It’s Over. The deal landed in the mid- to high-six-figure range, and it comes with Akela Cooper set to write the script.
Her latest scripted release is the hit The Nun II, and she has made a habit of scripting genre hits from M3GAN to Malignant and Hell Fest.
She’s scripted the sequel M3GAN 2.0, and in TV is co-executive producer of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The film will be produced by Roy Lee‘s Vertigo Entertainment alongside Scott Glassgold‘s Ground Control.
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