Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: In another deal that shows the streamer-fueled appetite for promising material and packages, Netflix has made a low seven figure commitment between rights to the Matt Query short story My Wife & I Bought A Ranch, and scripting fees for Query’s brother Harrison Query to write the screenplay.
The story appears in six parts on Reddit.Scott Glassgold and his Ground Control Entertainment are producing. They came as part of the package, and talks are underway for 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen, and Atomic Monster’s James Wan and Michael Clear to produce with him.The bidding was just getting hot on this one last night, and Netflix simply took it off the table by lunch today.
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