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Coming out on top in a competitive situation, Sony Pictures made its bet 71 minutes, Original spec text by Ian Shore.
Jason Reitman will produce the feature via his Ghost Corp banner alongside the company’s Erica Mills. It is not related to guidance at this stage.
While many details are kept under tombstones, the project is described as a real-time thriller about a man who needs to elude his pursuers in a ticking clock scenario and has only 71 minutes until the sun rises to do so.
Schur is known for his sci-fi work, having written the Paramount+ film directed by Antoine Fuqua InfiniteWhich stars Mark Wahlberg and Chiwetel Ejiofor. The writer is having a Corona moment at the moment as this sale occurs while his other script, currently untitled, is now being filmed as a Warner Bros. production. Starring Keanu Reeves with Tim Miller at the helm.
Shor wrote 71 minutes According to specifications, the script immediately generated huge interest, with more than 20 production companies, as well as some studios, chasing the project, before it was acquired by Sony.
Reitman directed last time Saturday nightwho narrated the making of the first Saturday Night Live The episode (which was also a ticking clock story), and a world was produced and developed Ghostbusters.
Shorr is repped by WME, Bellevue Productions and Hansen Jacobson.
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