By Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, Film EXCLUSIVE: Quite a week for Netflix’s film division, which tonight won a ferocious auction for the Simon Kinberg spec script Here Comes The Flood.
I’m told that the deal mid seven figures, an extremely high amount for a script that has no talent attached to it, but the kind of roles that attract stars.
Deadline revealed Wednesday night that the script hit the marketplace, shortly after we revealed that Netflix had won an auction for the Dwayne Johnson-Emily Blunt package Ball and Chain, which Emily V Gordon is scripting.
This came as Netflix closed a deal with Joe Russo to script a sequel to Extraction, and another with Louis Leterrier to direct Bright 2, while David Ayer made a deal to adapt
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