Here are some of the most notable script sales from July 2022. Blueprint Pictures has picked up screenwriter Debbie Horsfield’s untitled #WagathaChristie project, based on the feud between footballers’ wives Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy. Paramount, Weed Road Pictures, and Tradecraft are teaming up for the action film Stray, written by Derek Kolstad. Kyle Allen will exec produce and star. Southpaw Entertainment will produce the neo-western A Town Called Consequence from writer Chuck Hustmyre. Meridian Pictures picked up Vadim Perelman and Andrii Khokholkin’s script The Last Executioner, based on the life of Royal Executioner of Paris Henri-Clément Sanson. Perelman will direct. David Coggeshall will write the script for Skydance and Mattel’s live-action Matchbox movie, based on the Matchbox car toys created by Jack Odell in 1953. Paramount Pictures, A Seed & Wings Productions (Storm Reid), and Nina Holiday Entertainment will produce the coming-of-age dramedy Becoming Noble, written by Nneka Gerstle….

Here are some of the most notable script sales from June 2022. Focus Features and MXN will produce writer Diablo Cody’s next movie Lisa Frankenstein. Cole Sprouse and Kathryn Newton will star, and Zelda Williams will direct. Bee-Hive Productions and the New Zealand Film Commission will produce writer/director Alice Englert’s dark comedy Bad Behavior. Jennifer Connelly and Ben Whishaw will star. Star Thrower Entertainment is moving forward with The Threesome. The rom-com, written by Ethan Ogilby, will star Logan German and Phoebe Dynevor, and Chad Hartigan will direct. Paramount Pictures, Balboa Productions (Sylvester Stallone), Gorilla 8 Productions, and B&C Content have set to remake the South Korean thriller The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil. Don Lee (Ma Dong-seok) will produce and reprise his role. Lee Won-tae wrote and directed the original film. Process Media will produce writer/director John McNaughton’s upcoming thriller Road Rage. Michael Rooker attached to star. Lionsgate and…

Here are some of the most notable script sales from May 2022. Warner Bros. and The Safran Company are producing The Executioner, written by Ryan Firpo and Kaz Firpo. Jason Momoa is attached to star. Marc Platt Productions will produce Wild Four O’Clocks from writer/director Peter Craig. Michelle Pfeiffer will star. Symbolic Exchange and Bankside Films are moving forward with writer/director Lance Edmands’s psychological thriller Brightwater. Scoot McNair, Jack Reynor, and Emily Browning will star. Brookstreet Pictures and Sugar23 will produce Knox Goes Away, a noir thriller written by Gregory Poirier. Michael Keaton will direct and star. Game1 has picked up Jim Valvano from writer Jim Strouse. Based on the true story, the film will star Ray Romano, who will also produce. Untitled Entertainment, Independent Entertainment, and Hero Squared will produce writer/director Edward Anderson’s sci-fi/thriller Apteros. Kaya Scodelario, Lance Reddick and Ben Hardy will star. Southpaw Entertainment is moving forward…

Here are some of the most notable script sales from April 2022. The Streets of Rage adaptation found a home with DJ2 Entertainment and Escape Artists. The script was written by Derek Kolstad and based on the SEGA video game franchise. The original 1991 game was directed by Noriyoshi Ohba. Universal Pictures, Silk Mass, and Evil Media Empire have picked up Ryan Belenzon and Jeff Gelber’s thriller spec Batshit. Highland Film Group, Broken Open Pictures, and Volition Media Partners will produce David Frigerio and William Eubank’s action/thriller Land of Bad. Russell Crowe and Liam Hemsworth will star, and Eubank will direct. Far Pictures and Trybe Films will produce the romance/drama Re-Live: A Tale of an American Island, written by Rain Valdez and 2020 Script Pipeline Runner-up Rachel Leyco. Valdez will also direct. The script also appeared on the 2022 GLAAD List. Stop-motion powerhouse Laika will be making the animated noir…

Here are some of the most notable script sales from March 2022. Paramount Pictures, GK Films, and SISTER have tapped John Logan to script their untitled Bee Gees biopic. John Carney will direct. Trapdoor Pictures will make New Life, a horror/thriller from writer/director John Rosman. Ellen Shanman and Rawson Marshall Thurber will write a Voltron movie for Mandeville Films and World Events Productions. Thurber will also direct. The film will be based on the animated television franchise, which was originally adapted/edited from the Japanese anime series Beast King GoLion and Armored Fleet Dairugger XV, both created by Saburō Yatsude. Over at Hasbro Studios: Emily V. Gordon will write and exec-produce a movie based on Play-Doh. John M. Chu will produce and possibly direct. It will be an animated film. 30WEST and Lit Entertainment Group will produce Day Drinker, a supernatural romance/thriller from writer Zach Dean. Marc Webb will direct. Lionsgate,…

Here are some of the most notable script sales from February 2022. – Stampede Ventures has picked up Nick Schenk’s action spec Galahad. – Paramount and SpringHill Entertainment will team up to produce writer/director Peter Remsey’s supernatural noir spec Blood Count. – Davis Entertainment, Lit Entertainment Group, Make It With Gravy Productions, and Inspire Entertainment will produce Ending Things, an action spec written by Kevin Sullivan. Anthony Mackie and Priyanka Chopra Jonas are attached to star. – Screen Gems and Broken Road Productions are moving forward with Cat Wilkins’ currently untitled comedy about a modern woman transported back to 19th century England. Tim Story will direct, and British comedian London Hughes will produce and star. – Paramount Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films are making a Beyblade movie, based on Japanese company Takara’s toyline. Neil Widener and Gavin James will provide the script. – Lionsgate and The District are making an…

Here are some of the most notable script sales from January 2022. – New Republic Pictures and Jack Gyllenhaal’s Nine Stories Productions have acquired the spec script Cut and Run, a heist thriller written by John Glenn. Gyllenhaal will also star. – The video game It Takes Two will be getting the movie treatment over at DJ2 Entertainment. Pat Casey and Josh Miller will provide the script. The game was directed by Josef Fares and written by Fares and Soni Jorgensen, and it was released by Hazelight Studios in 2021. – Universal Picturs and Working Title Films will produce writer/director Coralie Fargeat’s feminist body horror film The Substance. Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley will star. – Genesius Pictures is moving forward with the Wim Hof biopic The Iceman. Jeff Pope wrote the script, Kevin Macdonald will direct, and Joseph Fiennes will produce and star. – A24 is co-producing a very…

Here are some of the most notable script sales from December 2021. – Stampede Ventures has picked up the romantic thriller spec Lady Krylon by Brandon Constantine. – TSW Films is moving forward with a Suge Knight biopic written by Nick Cassavetes and Anthony Thorne. – The Hideaway Entertainment will produce the comedy Sleep Train, written by Andrew Nunnelly. – Jake Helgren will write/direct his thriller The Bodyguard for The Ninth House. – Entertainment 360 is producing an untitled sports drama about the true story of deaf football coach Keith Adams, who led an all-deaf football team to the D2 California State Championship. Luke Davies will write the script. – Mattel Films and Vital Pictures will produce Christmas Balloon, written by Gabriela Revilla Lugo and based on a true story of a young girl in a Mexican border town who ties her letter to Santa to a ballon and the…