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EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros pre-emptively acquired the script by first time screenwriters Mark Bianculli and Jeff Richard. Described as Rear Window in tone, mysterious events occur in The Waiting when two high school filmmakers decide to create the illusion of a haunting on an unsuspecting neighbor. The two scribes have been working their way up the ladder. Bianculli is currently a writer’s assistant on CBS’s Unforgettable, and previously a PA on FX’s Justified. Richard worked as a production assistant on NCSI: Los Angeles. Both writers worked as assistants at Industry Entertainment where they met Rosalie Swedlin. They’re now repped by Anonymous Content’s Swedlin and Elana Barry, who will also produce, and by WME’s Danny Greenberg and David Karp who negotiated the deal. Sarah Schechter and Chantal Nong will oversee for Warner Bros.
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No more Smart and Final runs for these two! Congratulations fellas!
Good for those guys.
NO MEAT NO CHEESE DRAIN THE EGGS!!
Congrats, Mark!!
I can guarantee the wind just got sucked out of the writers room on ‘Unforgettable’ — the guy taking notes in the corner just one-upped the entire staff.
Bitter much? We are actually incredibly happy for him. Mark’s a great guy and deserves his success.
If he’d been a writer instead of just an assistant, maybe Unforgettable wouldn’t be the crappy show it is.
Anyway, it’s great news guys…well done!
the irony is that these guys would’ve been a long shot to even to get to write an episode of that crappy show, and even then they would’ve been page-one rewritten by even crappier high-level writers… everyone knows you have to have written on half-a-dozen unwatchable TV shows to get to write on an equally unwatchable show. big up, guys.
High school filmmakers = another entry on the found footage slush pile.
Someone please make it stop!
It doesn’t say anything about found footage. Someone needs to call Devry and quit dreamin’ the dream.
It doesn’t need to explicitly say found footage, that’s obviously what this is. The PARANORMAL ACTIVITY reference is the dead giveaway, as is the contrived and convenient fact that the main characters just happen to be filmmakers.
Yawn. You can take any story and make one of the characters a filmmaker and turn it into found footage material and then the studios think they make it look like wobbly-cam crap and can shoot on the cheap and it will appeal to teens because they experience life through youtube and their cell phone cameras anyway.
@ Eye Roll: Jeepers, another person complaining about a found footage film.
I thought your breed died out long ago, around the time a meteor hit earth and killed all the dinosaurs.
Found footage is A TECHNIQUE.
What are you going to complain about next? Stedicam shots? ‘Oh, man! Another film with stedicam shots! Make it stop!’
Get a clue and catch up with the times.
@ Whatever:I’m guessing you’re not a writer or a filmmaker. Found footage is not a technique, it’s a NARRATIVE FRAMEWORK on which the entire movie and audience/character perspective hangs and has nothing to do with how you choose to move a camera.
It’s a trend that’s being beaten to death by fad-chasing producers eager to shoot something on the cheap, regardless of whether the story calls for it or not. Sure, it can be effective when done well, but only when the approach is absolutely organic (even necessary) to the story. I’m a genre screenwriter and can’t tell you how many times I’ve pitched/or heard something cool pitched only to have the producer say “Hey, but what if there’s a documentary film crew following them around filming it? Then it can be found footage!”
Yay, great, then it will look cheap and feel contrived. Making the characters in the story filmmakers is the most contrived and least organic route to justifying the approach.
@ Eye Roll: You said: “Found footage is not a technique, it’s a NARRATIVE FRAMEWORK on which the entire movie and audience/character perspective hangs and has nothing to do with how you choose to move a camera.”
Found Footage has NOTHING to do with how you choose to move a camera? What a massive contradiction.
First off, I didn’t say found footage has nothing to do with how you move a camera, I said NARRATIVE FRAMEWORK has nothing to do with how you move a camera. If you’re having trouble following, the narrative framework of MEMENTO is contained entirely within the perspective of the main character (i.e. we don’t know anything he doesn’t know) and told backwards. That’s the narrative framework. Whether it’s is shot handheld or with Steadicam or on a process trailer doesn’t affect the narrative framework.
Secondly, I didn’t say it, but no, found footage has nothing to do with how you move a camera. How you move a camera is what determines how you move a camera.
Sure, kids running around doing the wobbly handycam thing is what we’ve come to expect from found footage, but that’s not a requirement of the device. Go check out the found footage movie THE QUIETEST SOUND which is a found footage feature shot entirely on a tripod. There’s another found feature movie shot entirely from a police cruiser’s dash cam. And on and on and on…
Congrats to the writing team. However very odd representation as Rosalie is a class act with impeccable taste and Danny Greenberg is a bottom feeder with no taste.
You must be joking. Danny’s one of my favorite agents in town. Great commercial taste. I’m sorry he passed on your script.
Awesome.
Great news! what goes around comes around! God bless healthy spec market.
congrats to those guys. paid their dues and earned it the “right” way.
hope it transitions well to the screen.
So awesome for them – these guys are gonna go a longgggg way.
Way to go guys! Congrats! Mark strut your f****** feathers!
Good things sometimes do happen for good people! Way to go Mark!
A spec means sitting down and writing an original script for the guarantee of nada. Anyone who sells a spec deserves a “Way to fucking go!” So congrats to you both! Well done.
Now let’s get some more original spec sales and stop with the all the damn remakes!
Congratulations to them, the spec market is off to a great start for 2012!
Good for them! It’s great to hear about people in the trenches rewarded for their hard work. Also, kudos to Swedlin. A boss who sees talent in her asst and helps them instead of keeping them chained to a desk for fear of how it might inconvenience their life? A lot of people in town could take a note from her.
Congrats MDB!!! Can’t wait to see it on the big screen!!!! Love your favorite sister-in-law
xoxo
Bottom feeder? Danny’s universally liked. Making a comment like that makes you look like an asshole.
You lost me at ‘you’re a writer.’
No you’re not — your posting on a msg board.
Oh, you’re right. Any writer who follows spec sales on an industry website is obviously a sham and a fraud. Real writers are too busy lunching with movie stars and closing seven-figure development deals.
Get a clue.