FROM THE WRITERS OF THE ROCK & DOUBLE JEOPARDY. **UPDATED – SOLD!**
**SOLD TO BOLD FILMS!**
ORIGINALLY POSTED OCT. 7TH, 2009.
**HEARING THERE IS AN OFFER IN ON THIS!**
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BLANK SLATE
Representation: Adam Kanter (CAA) & JC Spink/Jill McElroy/Brian Spink (Benderspink)
Written by: Cook & Weisberg
An action thriller franchise built around the perfect “Blank Slate” — a woman with a frontal lobe injury which allows the government to reformat her brain with the memories and skills of anyone, giving her dangerous knowledge and abilities.
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:35 pm
sounds cool, although a little bit like Joss Whedon’s DOLLHOUSE..I’m sure it’ll sell for piles of dough with their track record, though…esp as the word ‘franchise’ is right there in the logline!
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:13 am
A LOT like Joss Wheedon’s Dollhouse, actually.
October 3rd, 2009 at 11:12 am
It does sound like ‘Dollhouse’. It also sounds like that Dana Carvey movie.
Randall William Cook ‘barely’ wrote The Rock.
October 3rd, 2009 at 11:28 am
Yes I thought of DOLLHOUSE instantly as well — but what seems off is the title. It makes me laugh, not think action/thriller.
FRONTAL or REFORMAT sound like action/thriller movies.
October 3rd, 2009 at 12:46 pm
I read an action script once titled ‘Crash Dump’ – which is actually a legitimate computer term, and the script was a techno-thriller. But the title sounded like a bad bathroom experience.
October 3rd, 2009 at 12:58 pm
It is totally Dollhouse. Someone call Joss Whedon.
October 4th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
hmm ive never seen dollhouse. but it could be cool…an expanded dojo scene from matrix part 1.
October 6th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
another logline:
FRANKENSTEIN twist on BOURNE IDENTITY – When a CIA agent goes off the
radar and then turns up dead, her superiors have her memories
surgically transferred to donor so they can find out what happened.
But, not wanting the red tape of finding a volunteer they select a
female life-sentence prisoner, effectively putting a highly trained
agent in the body of a psychotic killer. The prisoner, who has
hitherto been an emotional and cognitive “blank slate” due to a brain
trauma, also takes on the agent’s smarts and manages to escape. She
struggles to survive, experiencing emotions for the first time and
making use of details in memory flashbacks (i.e. expensive jewelry
hidden in the house, mad money, etc), ultimately uncovering the
mystery of the agent’s death.
October 6th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
your description is much better, insider..and makes it sound less like Dollhouse.. Apart from the logic jump of surgically transferring memories(!)it is an interesting sounding-story and a great part for an actress in a male-appeal genre.
October 7th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
its a cool script.
March 22nd, 2010 at 11:57 am
Sounds like this has a very similar vibe to THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT. Just hope they have a Sam Jackson-type character in this one.