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EXCLUSIVE: A low seven-figure spec script deal just went down as Sony Pictures acquired a spec script with the working title Sex Tape. Written by Kate Angelo, it’s about a married couple who get a night off from their kids, get adventurous and decide to spice up their lives by making a sex tape. When they wake the following morning, the tape is missing, and they must find out who took it and how to get it back. The project will be produced by Escape Artists partners Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal and Steve Tisch, who came up with the idea. UTA and David Fox rep Angelo, who most recently scripted the Jennifer Lopez romantic comedy The Back-Up Plan. Columbia Pictures execs Andrea Giannetti and Adam Milano will steer a project that will be fast tracked.
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Great idea and a spec still sells if it is good, kudos to all involved!
Give me a break! That was done in one of the Vacation movies with Chevy Chase. Premise is pathetic! Typical Hollyood idea. no originality
Yes how outrageous, to rip off a small element of a 26-year-old movie. Is nothing sacred?
OK lets cast the couple. Mathew Perry & Tina Fey?
I actually think it’d make a nice sequel for Fey/Carrell’s Date Night.
This is a hilarious premise and i’m really shocked that no one’s really done it yet in a commercial movie given how many damn sex tapes have been done in the last 5 years. the idea of doing it with a happily married ‘normal’ couple is brilliant bc it’s relatable. and what a great deal – don’t see many million dollar spec sales these days. sony really ponied up on this one – uta really took a swing for the bleacher on this deal and hit it outta the fucking park!
ok uta employee.
Wasn’t this premise a “Friends” episode????
Really, look it up. This is not an original premise at all. It’s been done before. Maybe not as a movie, but perhaps there is a reason for that.
I was shocked when they did it in that movie “Road Trip”. This time – not as shocked.
And their names are “Pam” and “Tommy”!
Love Kate. Great person and talented writer. Nice work!!
What is ‘tape?’
lol. stole the words outta my brain.
do you think the Sony hackers can get me a copy? Just kidding… sorry that was too easy.
Great concept and great to see Sony buying a spec comedy. DATE NIGHT (mostly) worked and hopefully this will too.
Pam and Tommy “normal”?? hahaha. They couldn’t handle it.
Sounds great. Kate’s script for The Back Up Plan aka Plan B was smart, funny, grounded, edgy, and unique. I’m somewhat shocked she would be back in business with the producers who produced her script for Plan B/Back Up Plan. While it is easy to blame J-Lo,CBS Films, and a TV director for turning that brilliant script into unwatchable garbage….the producer should share the majority of the blame….they had a great script. Hard to imagine Scott Rudin turning that script into the movie it became.
you’ve got a good point. looking at the track record of Escape Artists I wouldn’t expect too much. While they seem to be perfectly nice guys, they seem to lack any instinct for humor and casting in their final product. I’m sure Sony is glad they’re working for the money they continue to give them.
So date night meets road trip.
More like Date Night meets The Hangover. Instead of searching for the groom, they search for the tape. And i am sure their zany best friends (who implanted the tape idea in their heads to begin with) are enlisted to help with the search.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
I’m sorry but that premise sounds awful. It’s DATE NIGHT with a slightly different premise, and will most likely be just as bad. Seriously??? This is the writer of the last J-Lo bomb.
I don’t know any of the fine folks at Escape Artists and am just throwing this out there, but…partners are typically too busy with management duties to sit down and brainstorm. Are we sure this didn’t originate from an assistant’s pitch and the credit for his/her idea just got swiped by the guys at the top?
Just asking…
Hmmm… Is this the same Kate Angelo who wrote the execrable and miserable “The Back Up Plan”?
Kate may be a great person, as the poster above named Mike asserts, but her talent leaves something to be desired if “The Back Up Plan’”– her sole feature flick credit to date — stands as a symbol of her writing chops. That movie was beyond bad, and it all started with the DOA script.
Meanwhile, “Sex Tape” has all of the cinematic appeal of a 21st century “Indecent Proposal”, only less original. Hollywood sucks sometimes. Just think about how many quality indie pics/scripts could be cultivated or nurtured with the studio cash that Ms. Angelo will get on the basis of this ‘Esztherhas meets Soderbergh’ movie premise.
But I’m happy to hear she is a nice person. That sincerely makes her awesome good fortune a bit easier to stomach.
A bit.
Really? It’s “The Hangover” meets “Date Night.” Cliched idea that you’d fire your assistant if they pitched it. Everyone saying how original this is must be related to or repping the writer.
Something like this is all about the execution, so I guess the script must be great to get you a million bucks these days.
All of you are missing the point. The point is, an average, everyday couple gets frisky and makes a sex tape — which is then somehow escapes into the wild, and they’ve got to retrieve it before the whole world, probably including their own small children, sees it.
It’s not The Hangover, or Road Trip or Date Night. It’s a sex tape that gets out. Good idea, but I’ll bet at least a dozen hopeful wannabees have spec scripts with the same premise, but either aren’t written as well, or they couldn’t get a powerful agency behind them.
That’s all fine, but who has a VHS player hooked up to their LCD 3D Flat screen? It would be like having a movie titled Dude, Who Stole My Records! Well that’s easy. The only guy you know who has turntables and hates iPods.
This idea might sell well to the “Jitterbug” crowd, but any “sex tape” would be burned onto a hard drive and instantly uploaded to the internets. So the idea of having a tape to look for just does not ring true.
This would be better – Orgasm Addicts “A young couple get the night off from their children and make a sex video, their computer gets hacked and the raunchy sex video gets uploaded to the internets and they become fabulously porn famous!
But after getting sucked into the world of fame, fortune and kink they just want to be normal again.” It’s like the Wizard of Oz, but Dorthy takes the red brick road. Yes, my pretty!
Wrote my comment above before I saw yours.
100 bucks it will end up being as watered-down mainstream and lame as Date Night.
Sounds like a fun idea…. But god, The Backup Plan was so horrible. JLo, with all her charm and talent, couldn’t bring life to that dead script. I assume this is a better script.
Starring Brad and Angie and their children. Zzzzzzzzz.
Sounds like Drop Box, the hot independent movie, to me.
Dude, where’s my sex tape?
But y was d tape stoln
The movie is perfect for Brad and Angelina.
How disappointing, I expected something other than a comedy judging from the title. I miss the days where you could go see something like Last Tango in Paris.
Let me guess, this will feature Vince Vaughan, Kristen Bell as the couple? Maybe throw in a little Seth Rogen for “originality”?
I’m with you.
Please note that Bridesmaids has passed the $100 million mark. Way to go!
Fresh idea, for 1992.
This sounds about as stupid as ‘The Back-Up Plan’ and I’m sure will perform just about as poorly. What a waste of time and money.