EXCLUSIVE: In the second 7-figure deal for Paramount Pictures this week, the studio preemptively acquired Yumanzu, a pitch by Free Guy screenwriter Matt Lieberman.
He will write the script and producing will be Kenya Barris and his Khalabo Ink Society (which just made a first look deal with the studio) will produce with Adam Kolbrenner (Free Guy) through his Lit Entertainment Group banner.Logline for the pitch is being kept under wraps, but Deadline hears this is a high concept family adventure movie that’s somewhere between Close Encounters and Jurassic Park.
It was acquired before other studios heard it, with Jon Gonda reeling it in. Lieberman has made a lot of noise with high expectations for Free Guy, the Shawn Levy-directed film that
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