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The spec script market continues to show green shoots in 2010. ICM just told me that writers Sonny Lee and Patrick Walsh, who left CAA for ICM last week, preemptively sold a spec script to Paramount with Montecito and Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg producing. Sonny and Pat have spent the last three years on It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia and have sold pilots to FBC and ABC. This is the duo’s first spec script. Based on an idea by Hurwitz and Schlossberg, 21 Shots centers around a guy who, on his 21st birthday, loses his I.D. and needs to track it down over over the course of one day. Montecito bought the spec preemptively through their Paramount discretionary fund. Hurwitz & Schlossberg are managed by Paul Young and repped by CAA.
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Hilarious!
I loved this script when it came in the other day. Too bad we didn’t get it. Its going to blow Hangover’s numbers out of the water.
This script is fucking hilarious. Can’t wait to see the movie!
Ok, I love anyone involved with Sunny. However, this sounds like a “The Hangover” ripoff.
I love Always Sunny, I love Harold and Kumar, I will probably love this. Tough to sell a spec these days, congrats to all involved.
Cool. A sequel to ‘The Hangover’. Don’t ya just love trends?
Ugh.
I clearly wasted my time on my past five specs. They aren’t copycats of any of this past year’s hit movies.
You poor baby…
Move back to Iowa.
Saw this last year when it was called THE HANGOVER.
I guess this remake is for the aging Disney demographic.
can we get a bit of clarification here. If Montecito bought it out of their discretionary, then it’s not actually set up at Paramount. A producer will buy something out of their discretionary with an eye towards setting it up at a studio, there are no guarantees however.
How many books has Rudin bought out of his discretionary that never see the light of day? Mandalay and Unique do it all the time as well.
Regardless, these guys are funny, and though I’m only halfway through the script now, it’s more SUPERBAD than HANGOVER. So call it what you want, original or not, it’s funny.
This is a very funny script and that’s the reason it sold. Anyone who’s actually read it wouldn’t compare it to The Hangover.
It was just a matter of time for Walsh and Lee. They have been hilarious at Always Sunny…Congrats…
The script is awful! Read it and it’s a rehash. Found nothing funny about it other than it was so funny how it was trying to be so funny. PASS.
Thank you.
I immediately thought of “The Hangover” when I heard the description but I’m looking forward to seeing it based on what’s been posted so far.
If it’s from anyone remotely related to “Sunny,” I’m pretty sure it’s at least funnier than 99% of the stuff released last year.
Uh, this sounds nothing like The Hangover anymore than it sounds like a number of “one crazy day” films than preceeded it. Everyone’s so ready to compare. Morons. Pat and Sonny are hilarious.
The Hangover? Guys, Dude Where’s My
IDCar wasn’t that long ago.I don’t see the comparison to ‘The Hangover’. The only thing similar is that it’s a comedy. I read the script, it’s really well done and it’s got a much different tone to it than ‘The Hangover’. Hayden and John will do a great job with it. This will be a hit. Amazing how many people hate on young writers who are doing their thing and being successful. If you aren’t selling scripts, then you aren’t doing something right, or you suck at writing and should think of a different career path. Get over yourself, congrats to these young guys – no need to be jealous.
Hey, wait a minute, it sounds like this post was written by a really young guy…
Having, you know, READ the script, I agree that it doesn’t have much in common with Hangover. The article makes it sound like a movie about a guy who gets wasted on 21 shots and can’t remember where his ID is, so he has to retrace his steps to find it. That would be very similar to The Hangover (or Dude Where’s My Car), but…that’s not the plot of this script. It’s much more of the “one crazy night” or “gotta get to the big party” school of comedy that has worked for decades, and though it isn’t Charlie Kaufman original (what is?), it is a DAMN funny, hard-R rated comedy with sharp dialogue and big set pieces that I can pretty much guarantee will be successful. It also has two exceptionally well-written roles for women, and that alone distinguishes it from not just The Hangover but pretty much every comedy being released these days.
I read 21 shots. It’s fine. No, it won’t surpass The Hangover’s numbers. The reason it got made is there are some funny moments and you have writers who have a track record with TV funny. That and some able bodied agents and managers and you have a spec sale. But this script isn’t breaking the mould, if really does havea Harold and Kumar feel to it.
Anyone know where to get a link to the script?