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EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is buying Agatha, spec screenplay written by Allison Schroeder which has Will Gluck attached to direct. Disruption Entertainment’s Mary Parent and Cale Boyter are producing with Benderspink’s Chris Bender, Jake Weiner, and JC Spink.
Spec is an action adventure which surmises what really happened to Agatha Christie during the 11 days she went missing. Plot specifics are being kept under wraps but tonally it is described as a female Sherlock Holmes meets Romancing The Stone. Schroeder previously wrote a Mean Girls sequel and was a writer for CW’s Beverly Hills 90210. Will Gluck is currently rewriting Annie to direct for Sony. Both Gluck and Schroeder are repped by UTA and Schroeder is also repped by Benderspink and attorney Lev Ginsburg.
Benderspink just produced The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Hangover Part III, We’re The Millers and Ride Along. Par’s David Beaubaire brought in the spec.
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Erm, this movies exists. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078736/
Ouch.
So basically it will be a frenetic version of the 1970s Agatha. Similar plot, exact same title. Most likely today’s moviemakers don’t even know it’s been done.
I’m not saying it’s not an interesting idea, but who is the audience for this? Young women? I don’t think so
Exactly. It’s sounds like a nice Lifetime mystery of the week, not a studio movie. Yes lots of people know the name but no one under 60 actually reads her books, and even if they do it doesn’t mean they want to pay $14 to see a movie about the authors life.
I get the appeal of doing a female-driven action/historical revisionist piece in the vein of Sherlock Holmes, but based on a British mystery novelist? She drank lots of tea and spent years at her typewriter.
Is this a remake? Are they all too young to remember this has been done before, with Vanessa Redgrave?
Isn’t this a remake of the 10979 Michael Apted film that starred Vanessa Redgrave and Dustin Hoffman? Same title, same premise.
1979, not 10979. Darn typo.
Sure, Gluck’s a good director, but can he figure out the problem with the 787′s batteries?
So, this isn’t a remake of the other film called “Agatha”, which dealt with the same (rather dull) story?
Is this a remake of the Vanessa Redgrave film “Agatha” which had the exact same title and premise?
I remember reading about this in some Agatha Christie biography and thinking then that some clever screenwriter should come up with What Happened In Those Missing Days a’la that spec that went out about The Missing Minutes On That One Nixon Tape.
As a Christie fan AND a Will Gluck fan, DEFINITELY looking forward to this!
There already was a movie about this with Vanessa Redgrave in the 1970s, folks…
Good for Will. It’s great he is getting more and more and more and more projects. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy!
How much did they pay? Anyone?
Good for Allison Schroeder – she is one of the sharpest female writers in town…what a great concept!
Calm down all. I agree – that film was dull as molasses. But that’s not to say a better written and executed film can’t come out of the same concept/speculation!
At least they are consistent in taking others ideas.
Spider-Man and Superman have both been rebooted in the same DECADE. You’re all worried about a script that shares the premise of a movie from 35 years ago?
Exactly! lol
I think people are more concerned with the fact that several writers who’s minds aren’t as sharp as Peter Morgan’s, are going to attempt to remake a movie based on a real life event that didn’t garner interest 35 years ago. It seems too many, myself included, to be a waste of time and money. But I also thought the same thing about “The King’s Speech.”
Sure, but this is a studio movie with the studio referencing big action movies so I doubt the budget will be 12M or anything close.
The bulk of your post was tedious enough already but you stepped over the line with you “bop” comment. I notice that a lot of female writer sales on this site are met with similar comments that men do not suffer from.
Impossible. There are not “a lot” of female writer sales. There are very few. Sad fact of life.
First, congrats to the writer and all involved.
Second, there is a great episode of the BBC TV series “Doctor Who” called “The Unicorn and the Wasp” featuring a science fiction take on Agatha Christie’s never explained disappearance in 1926. Pseudo history is ripe “new” genre with any number of interpretations!
Wait. This is the same girl who wrote “Mean Girls 2″?
Well that is an enormous “Pass” from me…
I am sure Allison is a nice gal and all, but how can the scribe behind “Mean Girls Deux” even get a sniff at a follow up – much less one with such underwhelming un-topical fare as this? They say Hollywood is chasing young eyeballs, right? If so, I doubt many 18 -28 year olds know Agatha Christie, and only a fraction of those have read her. When I read stories such as this one I wonder what nepotistic good tidings have swept Allison’s way to allow her such an opportunity/fanfare? I do applaud her success. I just don’t know if it is richly deserved, given her track record. And, yes, like many a poster above I chuckled over how it is highly likely the mental giants behind this project did not even know a dusty, old flop version of their planned flop already existed. Only in Hollywood.
A sad fact indeed. Even sadder is that nearly all of the few sales by female writers are met by the same kind of misogynistic, hater bullshit that appears in this thread.