**SOLD! TRACKINGB EXCLUSIVE UPDATE**
**SOLD TO RKO!**
**NOW HEARING THAT THERE IS AN OFFER IN ON THIS**
**IN FOR WEEKEND READ EVERYWHERE… HEARING THIS IS VERY MUCH ALIVE WITH BUYERS AND THAT TALENT IS NOW ALSO CIRCLING**
**POLYMORPHIC ALSO INTO FOCUS NOW…**
**LANDSCAPE INTO DREAMWORKS… ROSEROCK INTO WB… PHOENIX PICTURES INTO PARAMOUNT… POLYMORPHIC (POLLY COHEN) INTO UNIVERSAL… IN DIRECT TO ENDGAME… SONY & DISNEY BEING DESIGNATED AFTER LUNCH**
**DAVIS INTO FOX & FOX 2000… A-LIST DIRECTOR STILL CIRCLING… OTHER TERRITORIES RECEIVING INTEREST**
**SCRIPT IS OUT WIDE TO PRODUCERS… INTO SUMMIT, SCREEN GEMS, LIONSGATE, RELATIVITY, NEW REGENCY, CBS FILMS, SPYGLASS, LAKESHORE, FILM DEPARTMENT, MANDATE… REMAINING STUDIOS TO BE DESIGNATED**
**HEARING A MAJOR DIRECTOR IS CIRCLING**
THE ARCHITECT
Representation: Caren Bohrman (The Bohrman Agency)
Written by: Craig Stiles
Hitchcock’ian thriller.
February 26th, 2010 at 12:10 pm
I was just saying, what happened to the Hitchock’ian movies? They don’t make those anymore. Awesome to see.
February 26th, 2010 at 1:03 pm
Clerks.,
please see this past weekend’s box office. Insert SHUTTER ISLAND and THE GHOST WRITER.
March 2nd, 2010 at 3:48 pm
Anyone know the director or logline?
March 3rd, 2010 at 3:17 pm
just keeps picking up steam.
March 3rd, 2010 at 6:59 pm
or III it just continues to languish in the marketplace and some producers become more willing to take a flier on it. Not trying to be cynical, just trying to be honest about the spec market.
March 3rd, 2010 at 7:52 pm
exec1 — you’re a happy camper aren’t you?
Any more info on what the story is about, etc would be cool to hear. Or we can remind everyone that specs are hard to sell. Whichever is easier.
March 3rd, 2010 at 7:58 pm
i feel ya.
but a flier is better than silence…if the last 900 days of scarcity have taught us anything. something is definitely better than nothing.
March 3rd, 2010 at 8:38 pm
a NYC, hot-shot, up and coming architect gets the opportunity of a lifetime to build his dream building, in Dubai. Once on the ground, all hell breaks loose.
the first act is very reminiscent of blank slate. obviously a different feel, but writing reminds as of such.
this guy loves his architecture too. cool from that perspective.
March 3rd, 2010 at 10:09 pm
Clerks. I don’t know the logline. I’m only reading the situation. Not trying to be a Debbie Downer. In fact, I’m rather encouraged by the fact that about half a dozen specs have sold so far this year (ATM, KILLER, SAFEHOUSE, THE ESCORT, 21 SHOTS, ABDUCTION). Am I leaving any out? I’m just stating the obvious. When producers who RARELY play the spec market are submitting a spec that is a week old to a studio that is not their home . . . you have to do the math.
March 4th, 2010 at 7:01 am
…Or Doug Dower? Why does it always have to be Debbie…
March 4th, 2010 at 8:36 am
Exec, when it’s a script going out from a solo shop, with no attachments, don’t you think it can take a little more time to win fans and work its way up the food chain?
March 4th, 2010 at 10:34 am
I take it all back, i’m the asshole.
March 4th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
All right, all right I’ll ask her. Miss, miss! Do you know where the high school girls hang out around here? What? What? That’s right, I’m the asshole! I’m the asshole!
March 4th, 2010 at 3:19 pm
*claps* for genius and never-not-funny ‘Swingers’ line. Prob one of my fave moments in the movie — if only because I had friends do that to me in diners.
March 5th, 2010 at 10:09 pm
Knew that sounded familiar.
March 6th, 2010 at 11:37 am
with all the uncertainties surrounding the gulf region, especially the debt load of Dubai/UAE. if this is to sell, it needs to now and be greenlit with great haste.
Dubai may be able to slow play the demands on their D/E ratio, hoping the tourism and real estate markets swing back in full force, combined with a massive influx of new cash…otherwise this will be very much a time capsule of what was Dubai over the last decade, instead of a present day zeitgeist into extravagant consumption.
April 18th, 2010 at 11:53 pm
I enjoyed this script. The Dubai thing is not a concern. The city plays into the story well. I skimmed over a little, but only checked the page number like five times. A ‘North by Northwest’ type of Hitchcockian thing. Not ‘Vertigo’ or ‘Strangers on a Train’ Hitchcock. If anything it made me think ‘Taken’ meets ‘Breakdown.’ Could see Jake in this role. Maybe Zac. Too nerdy for Christian or Leo as a lead.
April 19th, 2010 at 7:17 am
I found the writing to be sub-par. But if folks are comparing this to Hitchcock — I’m clearly the minority. Read Dubai by Cozad. THAT cat can write.
April 19th, 2010 at 11:11 am
@RJMac: Sure, I’ll agree that the writing itself wasn’t amazing. But the fact is I got caught up in the story and just let all the spelling errors and lengthy descriptions and other little things slide, because the story and the charaters were there. Just MO. I’ll seek out DUBAI. I know nothing about it.
April 19th, 2010 at 7:19 pm
dubai is great. it was BL07. so it’s not hard to find.
April 19th, 2010 at 8:20 pm
Now that’s just awesome. Congrats to Caren and Mr. Stiles.
April 21st, 2010 at 2:59 pm
That spec ‘Dubai’ is actually becoming Jack Ryan 5. I heard they’re moving it to Moscow though. Not sure how that works. Good script though. And this one wasn’t bad either – felt a little ‘new writery’ (typos that should never have cleared management) but it moved.