Ben Magid’s spec screenplay Invasion has sold to Summit Entertainment/Participant for low to mid six figures. The story, which is an alien invasion thriller in the same vein as Cloverfield, is being produced by Eli Roth and Eric Newman (Children of Men, Slither). According to Shock, “the film opens with a wicked subway accident in Los Angeles in which the survivors (the film’s protagonists) climb from the wreckage to find the, now “snowy,” city in ruins.” No further details are available at this time. Magid made a name for himself in 2006, selling a pitch to New Line for his script Pan, a spin on J.M. Barrie’s tale of Peter Pan, where Pan is a villain being hunted by a police captain named Hook. He has since taken a stab at an early draft for the live-action adaptation of Hack/Slash.Magid is repped by WME and Energy Entertainment.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Spec script sale: "Invasion"
SlashFilm.com is reporting - but not the trades (that I can find) - that Summit has picked up spec alien thriller "Invasion" from writer Ben Magid:
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How on Earth (pun intended, given it's about alien invasions) did a movie simply entitled "Invasion" ever entice a script reader beyond the title page? IMDB turns up 23 movies called 'Invasion', including the recent flop with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, which was also about an alien invasion.
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