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EXCLUSIVE: In what might be the first solid spec sale of 2012, Warner Bros made a preemptive acquisition of The All-Nighter, an actioner scripted by Brad Ingelsby. Deal was mid-six figures up front and the film has Roy Lee and Brooklyn Weaver attached as producers. Ingelsby in 2008 made a big spec deal for the revenge thriller The Low Dweller to Relativity Media with Leonardo DiCaprio attached. In The All-Nighter, the scribes focuses on how, in a single night, an aging mob hitman is forced to take on his former boss. The guy has to protect his son and family, and winds up on the run from the mob and the authorities with his estranged son.
Lee has a first look deal at Warner Bros, and it’s the second project he has set in as many days, after Warner Bros acquired the David Cohen pitch The Vatican, to be directed by The Devil Inside helmer William Brent Bell. The All-Nighter was brokered by WME and attorney Jeff Frankel.
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So what happened to “Low Dweller”?
Relativity happened to The Low Dweller.
Liked this movie better when it was called “Road to Perdition”.
Pretty much what I came here to say. Isn’t this almost exactly the same plot?
Frankel is absolutely crushing it with his all star list of clients.
All star list i dunno, he’s got a very nice business, which hopefully you’re a part of, mostly though he’s really fun to party with in vegas and thailand…
the low dweller was a very overrated script. emperor’s new clothes.
Overrated writer and representatives.
Do you guys feel better? What do you get out of dissing them? Is life really that miserable for you?
Yes, life is that miserable for me that I would post opinions in an open forum based on having zero knowledge of any of these people. I’ve read it, I’ve dealt with them. My comment still stands. Have a nice day.
what’s wrong with giving an opinion? that’s what i come here for. last time i looked we’re all adults here, not kindergarteners. i didn’t personally insult anyone just say that i thought the script was overrated. jeez. i can’t stand this childish notion that anytime anyone says anything that isn’t in the vein of ‘rah rah rah’ they are immediately labelled ‘miserable, jealous, bitter’ etc. if i go to the movie theater and i think the movie is overrated, should i not say so lest i hurt someone’s feelings? would that make me a miserable person? grow up.
Brad is a very solid writer and overall good guy. His 1st work to hit the screen THE DYNAMITER, is an outstanding script as well as really well done movie.
Well one thing he certainly is good at is coming up with horrible movie titles.
This one will definitely be disappointing a lot of college kids looking for a movie about studying really hard.
Not a very good script, and I heard it was bought for scale….the mid six is the against price
i’d so almost believe you, because you sound so credible…. But the fact that the script was on the market for all of a few hours this morning tends to tell me you don’t really know what the hell you’re talking about.
Yeah, I hate guys like Esola who’s probably been involved with more sales than any other single agent in the last what? 18 24 months even…. Totally overrated.
Writer is apparently completely unable to come up with an original idea for a movie.
Must be nice to take laughably stale “genre” templates, crack open a Cormac McCarthy novel, copy the style, sell for high six figures. Lather, rinse, repeat…
Bullseye, my friend. Bullseye.
“The Low Dweller” = “No Country For Old Men”
“The All-Nighter” = “Road To Perdition”
If it’s as easy as washing your hair, why aren’t you doing it? And if you are, please list all the mid-six figure sales you’ve had lately.
The easy part is generating the gussied-up pseudo-literary B movie material he writes, the hard part is convincing the tow the emperor is wearing clothes, but that’s what Ingelsby & his team have managed to do.
Oh, I see. They’ve convinced all the buyers the 110 pages he’s been turning out are really a hundred slices of gold? Because they’re summoners, who can summon a sale, just like that, by conniving a gullible town?
All part of the game, my friend.
And right now, Ingelsby and his reps are playing it better than you and yours are. But let me get this straight — by your logic, his reps are overrated, although they can convince a very jaded town his crappy scripts are actually golden originals and they should cough up the big bucks to buy them? To my mind, that doesn’t make his reps overrated. That speaks to how absolutely stellar they must be, to spin gold out of shit. I want *those* guys repping me.
Sounds like sour grapes, my friend. Unless you’d still like to list all those mid-six scripts you and your underrated reps have been setting up all over town.
We’ll wait…
To all the haters, keep on hating. In this marketplace a studio does not pay mid six v high six figures (and they did) for second rate material even if Esola is involved (and he is a catalyst). What i am reading is from writers that are not earning dissing a guy who writes great material and earns and representatives that are jealous of Esola because he has the hot hand.
I agree. Low Dweller was a very, very well written script. If you’re looking hard enough for it, you’ll always find the retread in just about any script/ movie. But this guy knows how to write. He’s not phoning it in, he’s not faking it, and he’s certainly not writing for the town (at least with Low Dweller). I don’t know the guy nor do I know anyone involved with his business, but it’s obvious that he put his heart on the page. And it paid off in a big way for him. He should be commended for that at the very least.
Esola is a good young agent. I’ll give him that. No debate there whatsoever. As a person he stinks of “entitlement.” He’s got great charm and is able to fool you into thinking he is your friend, but will always backstab you if it’s not in his interests. But, yes a great salesman. He’s tricky because you want to keep forgiving him because of his charm, but you always get screwed. Being an agent would be great. There are many great agents who are also good people such as Rob Carlson, Michael Sheresky, Aaron Hart, etc…But I wouldn’t want to be fake like Esola in order to have his job. I like looking in the mirror in the morning and remembering what I stand for and that I don’t backstab my friends and colleagues. I just like to call them as I see them.
HaHaHaHaHa… You said Aaron Hart was a great agent and good people… Hahahahahah
Hart is good people. I know he may be a little “neurotic at times, but who isn’t over at ICM with everything going on over there…..He plays the game well in regards to politics. He also gives you “the deal” in your face. He doesn’t bullshit you. As far as great agent….ok maybe that word isn’t a part of his vocabulary yet. He’s good. He get’s it. I’ll go as far as that. It takes time to be a great agent like a Rob Carlson. But in 5 years if he learns to “chill” and not get stressed as say a Craig Kestel (Craig by the way has great taste in material and is a good agent) type would…….than he’s got the potential to tear it up. I’m sure he’s making the right allegiances and trying to get a mentor since Danny Greenberg is no longer by his side.
Sounds like you’ve got a cat in this fight Silverman.
Where can one find the above mentioned scripts to read?