By Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, Film EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures made a preemptive mid-six against seven-figure deal on Murder In The White House, a spec script by Jonathan Stokes.
Neal Moritz and Toby Jaffe will produce for Original Film. Script has a ring of a Knives Out-style whodunit, set inside the White House.
The President is murdered during a private dinner, and a female Secret Service agent has till morning to discover which guest is the killer before a peace agreement fails and leads to war.
Stokes has landed four of his scripts on The Black List, and made sales to Warner Bros, Paramount, Universal, Sony, Fox and New Line.
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