Back in the day, only a chosen few – those employed by the studio or those who worked on the film – had the privilege of reading a script before the movie came out. As such, only a few people were able to boast about their dead-on assessment of a great script or dribble out […]

Genre: Comedy (fish-out-of-water)Premise: A misfit Eskimo who dreams of bigger things stows away on a documentary crew airplane to New York City, where he tries to find his way.About: Based on the 1963 novel The Incomparable Atuk by Mordecai Richler, “Atuk” has been bouncing around Hollywood a long time. But this script is different from […]

Genre: ActionPremise: A team of mercenaries head to South America on a mission to overthrow a dictator.About: Sylvester Stallone’s long-gestating project which he’s been trying to get all the biggest action stars of the 80s and 90s in forever. He supposedly asked Van Damme and Seagal to be in the film and they refused. Willis […]

Genre: Sci-Fi ThrillerPremise: (from IMDB) A man is wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. He’s offered his freedom if he can rescue the president’s daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates.About: This sci-fi actioner is being pitched as “Taken in outer space” but it appears that’s due […]

Genre: Crime/Thriller/WesternPremise: An ex-boxer on the run for an accidental murder picks up a young woman with a dangerous secret.About: You may remember Zach Dean from his spec sale I reviewed a couple of weeks ago, Layover. He’s the high school teacher who was on that infamous Jetblue flight with bad landing gear. It seems […]