TV Writers Sell Script for a Million Plus...
June 5th, 2000
I heard some rumors over the weekend concerning a major script acquisition last week. It's now being reported that Universal Pictures, in a preemptive strike, purchased Steve Koren and Mark O'Keefe's spec script BRUCE ALMIGHTY for 1 million and some change. The script is reportedly about a disenchanted young man who is given the opportunity by God to play the Big Man for 24 hours, with some major comedic relief along the way. This sale prompted Variety to declare the script spec market may still have some "life in it yet."
The two scribes are relative unknowns, Koren did some work on Saturday Night Live and did pen A NIGHT AT THE ROXYBURY (1999). O'Keefe was a staff writer on TV's TALK RADIO. This sale, along with some other recent ones, clearly indicates that now is a great time to be a TV staff writer with a good script, ála Alan Ball (AMERICAN BEAUTY). Hopefully the well won't dry up soon!
-- Chris
The two scribes are relative unknowns, Koren did some work on Saturday Night Live and did pen A NIGHT AT THE ROXYBURY (1999). O'Keefe was a staff writer on TV's TALK RADIO. This sale, along with some other recent ones, clearly indicates that now is a great time to be a TV staff writer with a good script, ála Alan Ball (AMERICAN BEAUTY). Hopefully the well won't dry up soon!
-- Chris
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