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EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has bought writer Jonathan Stokes’ spec script Murders & Acquisitions for a low six figures. The purchase marks the first acquisition by Warners for producers Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg’s KatzSmith Productions, which recently closed an overall deal with the studio. The action comedy is about a Wall Street stock broker who becomes the target of a hit from a rival firm. Stokes last wrote the screenplay El Gringo, starring Christian Slater, which was just produced by Joel Silver’s genre label Dark Castle Entertainment and After Dark Films. Stokes’ latest spec, Blood Mountain, is currently making the rounds. He is repped by UTA and Energy Entertainment.
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How American Psycho of him.
This sounds like the script he sent out last year when it was called “The Rightman Hit”. This is a much better title.
Blood mountain is “his latest”? That things been flopping around since the beginning of summer 2010…
Yeah and the death of Bin Laden pretty much killed that script too, since it’s basically a fictional account of one soldier catching a Bin Laden type guy and riding him through the desert, trying to bring the man to justice.
Nice. Stokes is the real deal.
Blood Hill has been read & passed on by just about every company in town I believe.
There should be more movie titles taken from Patrick Bateman quotes.
Wasn’t his job “Murders & Executions”?
Pitzer alum doing big things! Love it. Many congratulations.
Like that matters — you think people buy scripts based on the quality of the writing? That’s hilarious. You see, the guys at UTA and Energy say he’s REALLY good and that this script is REALLY good. Much easier just nod and write the check than say, oh I don’t know, try to do something hard like recognize good writing.
Dan H, you’re an idiot with no idea how the industry works.
Is that a post from 1997?
Sounds like jealousy to me…
Wow, these comments are literally oozing with jealousy.
Why can’t writers be happy for other writers? How many scripts are bought on spec nowadays anyway? A success like this is a success for us all.
Congratulations, Jonathan!