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EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Adam Cozad, a screenwriter who doesn’t yet have a screen credit, but is in the middle of some of the bigger projects in town. Cozad’s script Moscow was bought by Paramount and developed into the reboot of the Jack Ryan reboot that Kenneth Branagh is directing with Chris Pine starring and Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mace Neufeld producing for Par and Skydance. He also adapted the Mark Greaney novel The Gray Man for New Regency that James Gray will direct with Brad Pitt starring, as well as a Tarzan film at Warner Bros that I’m hearing has the interest of filmmakers David Yates, Gary Ross and Susanna White. Cozad also scripted the Scott Free-produced extraterrestrial thriller Archangel for New Regency, which has Joseph Kosinski attached. Cozad did all that while repped at ICM Partners before his agent left there. He continues to be managed by Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and lawyered by Jeff Frankel.
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Cozad is awesome and great to work with. Best of luck at CAA.
Bad move. He had one of the most dedicated and hard working agents in town. Now he’s fallen to the end of some agent’s list at CAA. Good luck.
Doesn’t CAA represent Gotham, too?
If so, he’s sort of rep and managed by CAA now. If that is the case, it may be time for a new management company.
Agreed – he had excellent representation which clearly worked hard for him… Surprised to hear this.
What’s the matter Adam? Was it Aaron Hart’s fault that JACK RYAN didn’t go into production quicker? Waaaah. Learn some loyalty, especially at this still nascent stage of your career.
Whoever you are, all you do is make Aaron Hart look bad with a post like this. We writers get treated so poorly by agents and managers, Godforbid one of us actually does what’s in our best interests.
Yes. Especially in this climate, a lot of reps drift into a volume business where they sign way more writers than they can effectively service and just hope something sticks. Writers get dicked over and treated like doormats by their reps all the time, even the successful ones, and everyone howls like a stuck pig when a writer decides to make a change. Please.
Judging the relationship between a writer and a rep from the outside is like trying to judge a marriage. The only people who really know what’s going on are the people in it.
It’s funny how when writers with success leave reps for bigger name and writers like me trying to break in are usually looked down on for leaving reps that aren’t doing it for us. Weird business that way.
I feel bad for reps and writers. Not easy either way.
Ha it’s true — if you’re unsold/unproduced then you’re supposed to be grateful you have reps at all, even if they never do anything for you and don’t read/return calls. If you change reps then you’re just an ungrateful loser putting blame in the wrong places. If you leave reps when you’re sold/produced then you’re not loyal. It’s really dumb.
The thing people always seem to forget is a writer is ALWAYS way way way way WAY more invested in the productivity of a relationship than any rep (unless the rep has one single client). Reps have shit tons of clients at any given time, a writer has one (or two) reps. The decision to part ways always has a MUCH bigger impact on the writer and you can be sure they’ve thought it about it a hell of a lot more….so why not just give them the benefit of the doubt here?
The Gray Man was one of the worst scripts I have ever read. Cozad is an overrated writer who gets rewritten (justifiably) every time, I’m talking page one, nothing to salvage rewritten.
Bad move to CAA as well.
How does someone who has never had his name on a movie poster get a lead story on “Deadline”? Madness.
Can we have a rule? If your movie is on the SCREEN, then you become a screenwriter. If you’ve nothing to show for your efforts, you’re still a scriptwriter. That should separate the men from the Starbucks Posers.
Rebooting Jack Ryan. A big authors worst nightmare.
@Ben: opinions are like @zzes… Your “know all” attitude that obviously portraits your self appointed elite status. I have had the privilege to know this hard working man and can say that I am quite looking forward to his completed projects. Seems the negative comments are tinged with a bit of jealousy? Best of luck to you Mr. Cozad!