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The Black List continues to be a springboard for script sales. Darius Films has optioned Point A, a script by Chris Rubeo that made the 2010 Black List. Rubeo is set to direct his script, and Darius Films principal Nicholas Tabarrok will produce. Rubeo wrote and directed the indie Hale Bopp. Point A is an unconventional love story between a 35-year-old magazine writer and the subject of his latest piece, a witty teenage video blogger. “It’s pretty provocative material,” Tabarrok said, “but Chris does a great job creating an authentic and believable chemistry between the two characters.” Darius Films produced the Peter Stebbings-directed Defendor, which starred Woody Harrelson, Kat Dennings and Sandra Oh, and A Beginners Guide to Endings, which Jonathan Sobol directed with Harvey Keitel, Scott Caan and JK Simmons. E1 acquired it for summer release. Rubeo is repped by ICM and manager John Tantillo.
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I wish the Black List was a list not just of unproduced scripts but also unproduced WRITERS. I think that would be much, much more interesting.
Most of the writers on there are unproduced
This is clearly a male fantasy movie for ugly men who can’t get laid. Like most of the Blacklist voters.
If a woman screenwriter/director wrote about a 35 year old woman shagging a teenager it would never be made and she would never make the Blacklist or get another job in Hollywood.
The double standard is out of control here.
One can play this game forever. If a woman sells one screenplay, she can get married to a guy and forever be considered successful because she sold a script. A guy has to build an entire career, or he’s a guy who “once” sold a script. A guy has all sorts of male privilege of course.
Have you see some of the ethnic people who are working writers? You think those dudes can write about their experience as a minority growing up in America all that easily? Yes, there are some ethnic shows, but they have to write white male characters, not their own experience. Life sucks, take a number.
What are you smoking cmon? It’s not 1952. The subject matter of this script blows. And don’t women have every right to have the opportunity to suck at screenwriting as much as men do?
Congrats to Chris. Great dude who has worked hard for this!
This script sounds like every lonely introvert male’s wet dream. No wonder it got picked up quickly.
What was quick about this?
Nothing quick about it. If anything, too slow. I reviewed Chris’s first film, “Hale Bopp”, for Film Threat in 2003, which was, in turn, my first year with Film Threat when I really didn’t know anything then (I know a little more now). I wanted more from him then, and believe me, it’s taken a long time. But now it will be worth it.
Provocative? Please….This is such standard male fantasy at this point it’s just annoying to 85% of women.
Sex discrimination is legal in the movie business. But the men of Hollywood celebrate it and reward it with money and a greenlight. Will this town ever wake up?
I can’t see what new light this movie is going to shed about an adult wanting to have sex with someone who is not legal unless they call it pedophilia and send the guy for professional help. “It’s pretty provocative material,” this post says. Give me a break.
I’d like to see what actor has the b*lls to take on the part! And will Jennifer Lawrence want to play THIS 16-year-old, too???
I just looked it up, did you know the age of consent is 16 in 31 of 50 states?!?! WTF?!?
Wow. You can practically hear all those Hollywood private jets starting their engines.
This is a great script and well-deserved! I repped Rubeo awhile back and always knew he was sick. I hope the producers can get it going!
Change the teenage character to a male OR the adult character to a woman and then see how far you’d get.
Change this script to a TOTALLY DIFFERENT script and THEN see how far it gets! Duuuuuhhhh….
As a father of two under aged girls…I was leery about reading POINT A when Chris asked me to. I found the script to be anything but what I thought it would be. The story is on an emotional level, not lewd or sexually visible..in fact, the physical aspect of the relationship isn’t the main focus of the story. It’s about how a 16 year old helped a man grow up…..
Who is in the film? Who’s going to sell this Internationally/Domestic?
I also read the script (one sitting) AND have a teenage daughter. I kept thinking that, in the end, I would not be able to accept the difference in age between the main characters. But the story pulled me along and when I finished I found that I was no longer thinking about that. Instead, I walked away thinking about what had really developed between them and why.
Congratulations, Chris! Rory Aronsky, above, got it right!