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EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has gotten back in business with its Safe House scribe David Guggenheim. The studio has preemptively acquired 364, a drama that will be produced by Imagine Entertainment. Ron Howard is attached to direct. The title refers to the number of days in a year that a normal guy spends each year figuring out the heroic deeds he will perform on the one day each year that he has super powers. Brian Grazer will produce and Erica Huggins will be executive producer.
Guggenheim is quite a story in his own right. He was an editor at Us Weekly when he wrote Safe House, and quit that job only after he sold it to Universal. That film just wrapped, with Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds starring for director Daniel Espinosa. Since then, Guggenheim sold the Fox pitch Santiago, which has Simon Kinberg producing, and he set Puzzle Palace at Summit Entertainment, with Temple Hill producing. APA and Madhouse Entertainment rep Guggenheim.
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I don’t wanna knock this because I read safehouse and liked it but this doesn’t seem like the great idea, maybe i’m in the minority here
If that makes you the minority, I’m right there with you. Maybe there’s more to the story but I just don’t see a movie here.
Should be excellent, great team. Safehouse was a really good script so I would expect nothing less here because it sounds like a grounded “superhero” story. go get ‘em Ron!
I think I’d rather see ‘Dial H For Hero’ adapted as a movie [though, it just might be a great idea for a TV series...].
Well, there are no “dials” anymore, so there’s that.
How about “Text ‘H’ For Hero”?
His Safe House draft was terribly written. I hope he’s improved. Just stating facts.
Oh stop with the sour grapes losers. The guy is a fantastic writer and safehouse was a great spec. Just be happy things are selling
This seems like a another show that burns to depict American men as less than average, as small,dumb and cowardly. A whole year to jack up the courage to do one thing? This writer needs to do some volunteer work in the real world. It’s an adolescent theme.
Way to go Guggenheim!!
Hey Sceptic,
Way to miss the point. He doesn’t spend the year trying to “jack up the courage”, he spends it planning all the heroic deeds he intends to commit. Deeds that are probably outside the realm of what a normal person can do.
Hey Mike, yeah David’s a real interesting story… came out of nowhere–oops. His freaking brother wrote Green Lantern and the other one wrote that hockey movie no one saw.
But good on him for the sale.
Not to take away any of his success, I realize it’s a great to story to say he was an editor at US Weekly and then sold a screenplay that got greenlit right away. But, correct me if I’m wrong, isn’t he the brother of writers Eric and Marc Guggenheim? So it wasn’t like he was plucked from obscurity; he certainly had a leg up with great connections and good genes.
You’re absolutely right, he sold SAFE HOUSE on his family’s name alone, also, his brothers secretly ghost wrote for him. Also, it’s not like he spent 10 years trying to break into the industry. Oh wait, none of that is true.
Some people just work harder and smarter than you. Learn to cope with your own shortcomings instead of rationalizing others’ success.
Amen. I’m one of the few that is just thrilled that scripts and pitches are selling. In this bad economy, this is great news for a wannabe pro screenwriter. But, really, this is the only way studios are going to make money. They have to buy projects. Good for Guggenheim and any writer that can sell’em.
Enough of the super hero fantasy nonsense.Where is the next Clockwork Orange,Sting,Brother Where Out Thou,Butch Cassidy, etc etc. the dearth of good movies is alarming.Its a rare event when a decent good movie comes out much less an exceptional one.What can you expect when the multi-million dollar green flag keeps getting thrown down on crap off the get go.There really needs to be a serious shake-out at the Networks and Hollywood Studios.I have great respect for Ron Howard on all levels.I suppose he is taking whats offered.The people making the over all decisions really need to stop obsessing on box office based on whats gone before.Go back to great scripts rather than formulas.