Ouch
The following story was in Variety today: Labels: 60 minute broadway
Summit Intl. will handle international rights to Darren Aronofsky's indie drama "The Wrestler," starring Nicolas Cage.
Story centers on a 1980s-era wrestling star, who scrapes by doing small-time matches in New Jersey's backwaters.
Aronofsky's directing and producing. Cage, Norm Golightly's Saturn Films and Scott Franklin are also producing. Screenplay was written by Robert Siegel and is being financed by Winchester Capital Partners, the film finance company created by Jean-Luc De Fanti and Jeff Sagansky.
Summit will begin pre-sales at the upcoming American Film Market. The banner also handled Aronofsky's "Pi" and "Requiem for a Dream."
CAA, which reps Cage and Aronofsky, packaged the deal and is helping to sell the pic.
If that plotline sounds familiar it's because it's remarkably similar to a screenplay I wrote and was in the process of turning into a comic book mini-series called 60 Minute Broadway.. My script made it's way around to some studios and production companies and you can read about those trials and tribulations here if you feel like checking it out.In no way do I think for even a second that the idea was "stolen" from me. It just sucks that it wasn't my script that got picked up.
posted by John K @ 3:05 PM
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