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UPFRONTS 2013: The Overachievers
EXCLUSIVE: I’m told that New Line closed a deal Friday night for The Watching Hour, a horror film written by Carey and Shane Van Dyke that will be produced by Mary Parent and Michael Connolly of Mad Hatter Entertainment. The spec’s described as a home invasion film, only with aliens. Still trying to get confirmation, but I’ve heard the writers are the grandsons of the great comic actor Dick Van Dyke. Paradigm brokered the deal.
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This script is awesome – super scary and well written. I really wanted to buy this spec! They also wrote a great thriller called Amber Alert that I think is in production.
Sounds like you wrote it.
A home invasion movie with aliens? So, basically, it’s John Sayles’ abandoned “Night Skies” script that Spielberg was going to do?
so SIGNS is getting remade?
Nepotism in Hollywood has never been greater. Ditto cronyism. Here’s how it probably went down: fresh out of college – or maybe high school – Van Dyke’s grandsons approached an agent at a big agency. He finds the material average at best, yet he always watched the Van Dyke show on TV Land growing up & loved it – so agent signs them. Van Dyke boys get meetings with producers and execs who ask questions about granddad and regale grandsons with stories about their favorite episodes of Van Dyke’s show. After years of meetings that go nowhere, some agent loves Dick Van Dyke so much he actually antes up & buys a script – that will likely never get made.
No one would buy a script just because they like the writer’s grandfather and then not make it. That’s absurd.
So I take it all those agents you e-queried about your hot swamp creature script (surely the new vampires) never got back to you?
Bitter? Bitter? Party of one?
Um. Agents don’t buy anything. They sell.
After reading this comment several times, I’m convinced it’s meant to be a joke. It’s actually kind of funny if you try to imagine being in a meeting at CAA where everyone is talking about how much they love Dick Van Dyke.
This is maybe the dumbest thing ever said on this website… and that’s saying something
No, it’s not because I loved the Dick Van Dyke Show, it’s because DIAGNOSIS: MURDER was the bomb.
Listen up, dumb-ass. Shane and Carey Van Dyke are in their thirties and have been paying their dues and working their butts off for over fifteen years. They’ve worked in theater, television and movies, acting, writing, and in Shane’s case directing. They’ve never once asked for help from anybody. Every connection they’ve made they made on their own. Shane contacted The Asylum himself and worked his way up from re-writing to writing, to acting and finally directing. If you think that’s easy, especially on an Asylum budget and schedule, I’d like to see you give it a try. They got their managers and agents on the basis of their talents, period. Their scripts are being considered by all the major studios on their own merit, period. Both guys have done everything they could to avoid the label of nepotism. Seems it doesn’t matter. There’s always some uninformed dimwit out there, all to willing to pre-judge people based on their own bitterness and jealousy. Try writing something more creative than an asinine blog. Maybe you can have a life too.
No, you guys are totally right, New Line obviously spent money on this even though they knew it wasn’t very good and have no intention of making it. Or — OR — you’re just bitter.
But it’s definitely the former. Definitely.
Yes, that’s exactly how Hollywood works. Thank you for clearing it up for us genius. All these “agents” dying to get into business with Dick Van Dyke pay a lot of money for a script. I’m sure New Line’s corporate parent, Time Warner, endorses nepotism as a business strategy. The fact that this script sold without attachments speaks to the merits of the writers and the script.
Congrats to the writers and nice to read new line still exists.
Yes, but it was the concept and New Line who made their bread and butter off of horror and urban comedy for a price that’s this deal work. It had nothing to do with Dick. If the agency comes in with money which they are sure to do this movie is already made.
I will only go see this if Dick Van Dyck plays an alien with a bad cockney accent.
Let’s face it–there are probably better scripts out there but nepotism does indeed rule in this town.
It’s a fact, people.
Thank God nepotism never happens outside of Hollywood. What kind of a world would it be then?
if you want to look for nepotism with writers there are great, far greater examples than this. fortunately i don’t see this as a case of nepotism. 98% of agents today think kelly clarkson is great.
enough said.
Shane Van Dyke has been doing low budget movies for Asylum. Classics like PARANORMAL ENTITY (to be mistaken for PARANORMAL ACTIVITY) and the uber-classy TITANTIC 2 – yes a sequel! I’m not sure why New Line’s interested. Maybe a straight to video deal or maybe this script is really good?