Script Sales: More Sequels!: DUECE BIGALOW: ELECTRIC GIGOLO and Man Pitches a SH
March 30th, 2003
"Corky Romano" writers Jason Ward and David Garrett have signed on to pen "Deuce Bigalow: Electric Gigolo" at Touchstone Pictures for a mid-six-figure advance.
Ward and Garrett will work with star Rob Schneider on the sequel script, in which Schneider's hapless character will attend a gigolo academy.
In 1999's "Deuce Bigalow," which earned $65.5 million at the domestic box office, Schneider portrayed a clueless aquarium cleaner who becomes a gigolo in order to earn enough money to repair the damage he's done to a gigolo's home.
Ward and Garrett are writing "Do That to Me One More Time," a '70s musical for Disney to star Jack Black .
The dog days are back at New Line, with Mike Bender selling his pitch "Show Dog" to the minimajor for a mid-six-figure advance.
Bender is the scribe behind Sony's "Not Another Teen Movie" and also has set up a kids comedy remake inspired by "A Fistful of Dollars" called "A Fistful of Candy," in development at Columbia.
"Dog" is described as a CGI/live-action family comedy set in the hyper-competitive world of dog shows, with a storyline following a "Trading Places"-esque scenario in which a street mutt must swap with a pure-bred champion competitor.
Warner Bros. Pictures has paid mid-six figures to acquire an untitled pitch from scribe David Hubbard for helmer Chris Columbus ' 1492 Prods. to produce for the studio.
The picture also is intended as a potential directing vehicle for Columbus.
Though producers are keeping a tight lid on the project's storyline, it's described as a magical romance about a man and a woman whose destinies are intertwined.
The picture will mark second teaming of Hubbard with 1492 after he was brought on to rewrite "Straight on Till Morning," which is still in development at 20th Century Fox.
Hubbard penned the comedy/drama "Dad's New Life" for Jerry Bruckheimer Films and the spec script "Noel," which sold to Fox 2000. He also penned the adaptation of British novelist Carole Matthews' "For Better, for Worse" for Bill Mechanic's Disney-based Pandemonium.
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