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  • I've got a movie coming out this week!

    Hi fellow DDers,
    Years ago, I wrote a spec script called SOLO, which was optioned a few times, but largely collected dust for eight years until out of the blue, Blumhouse bought it and made it (and renamed it PREY). I hope you'll check it out! PREY hits select theaters and VOD this week.
    Enjoy!

    TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXe_hHADEK4
    https://twitter.com/DavidCoggeshall
    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1548597/

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    Re: I've got a movie coming out this week!

    Badass! Congrats! Hope it does well for you... lots of positive replies to the trailer in the comments section.

    Finally some good news around here.
    Bruh, fukkin *smooches*! Feel me? Ha!

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    • #3
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      Congratulations. Must of been a nice surprise. Can you tell us how the script came to the attention of Blumhouse?

      Hey, Bono, did you hear that -- "years ago"? Maybe now you won't poo-poo old scripts anymore. Ya never know.

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      • #4
        Re: I've got a movie coming out this week!

        Originally posted by ProfessorChomp View Post
        Hi fellow DDers,
        Years ago, I wrote a spec script called SOLO, which was optioned a few times, but largely collected dust for eight years until out of the blue, Blumhouse bought it and made it (and renamed it PREY). I hope you'll check it out! PREY hits select theaters and VOD this week.
        Enjoy!

        TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXe_hHADEK4
        Trailer looks awesome. Congratulations. I'll check it out. Good luck with it.
        "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy b/c you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say." -- Edward Snowden

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        • #5
          Re: I've got a movie coming out this week!

          Love to hear this story of how "out of the blue" blumhouse comes around... awesome!!

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          • #6
            Re: I've got a movie coming out this week!

            Looks awesome, congratulations!

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            • #7
              Re: I've got a movie coming out this week!

              Congratulations.
              Free Script Reads and Notes

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              • #8
                Re: I've got a movie coming out this week!

                Fantastic. Good luck with it!

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                • #9
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                  Congratulations Professor.
                  "I just couldn't live in a world without me."

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                  • #10
                    Re: I've got a movie coming out this week!

                    Awesome! Big Congrats!

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                    • #11
                      Re: I've got a movie coming out this week!

                      So here's the story.

                      I wrote a spec called SOLO back in 2007, which was basically Blue Lagoon meets Misery. It was optioned a few times over the years and was a good sample for me (it's how I got staffed on Scream). Then an exec at a company who had optioned it years ago mentioned it to Blumhouse during a random conversation. The exec at Blumhouse remembered reading and liking it back in 2007. He revisited, and they made an offer. After that, it was really out of my hands, because BH is a director's playground. The director did significant rewrites and went off to Malaysia to shoot it. When the Star Wars SOLO movie came out, this project was changed to PREY. We ended up going to arbitration for writing credit, and the result was a shared "Written By".
                      https://twitter.com/DavidCoggeshall
                      http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1548597/

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                        Re: I've got a movie coming out this week!

                        Awesome!

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                        • #13
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                          Oh wow! Nice! I am not sure if it will be in theaters near me, but if not I will definitely watch it when it comes out on dvd/streaming.

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                            FWIW-

                            I like PREY much more than SOLO.

                            SOLO could be about a lone hiker. WILD could have been titled SOLO. Yet WILD is, for me, a more fierce title than SOLO.

                            Whereas WILD could not have been titled PREY. PREY is more sinister.

                            I think you guys made the right choice regardless of the reasoning.
                            Bruh, fukkin *smooches*! Feel me? Ha!

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                            • #15
                              Re: I've got a movie coming out this week!

                              What can I say but ...

                              Congratulations, ProfessorChomp!

                              Was everything properly formatted?

                              "The fact that you have seen professionals write poorly is no reason for you to imitate them." - ComicBent.

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