David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith and their production company KatzSmith have just signed a two year first-look deal with Warner Bros Studios. Under that deal, one of their first projects is a reboot of BEETLEJUICE. If you haven't seen this Tim Burton pic then you should. It's another cult classic from the 80s (1988 to be exact) and is definitely worth a look. Deadline reports that the deal grew from screenwriting that Grahame-Smith is doing for Burton. Grahame-Smith is contracted to write two scripts under the Warner Bros deal and BEETLEJUICE could be one of them.
- Bryantology, “in which a loser on the verge of losing his house exploits a tax loophole, invents a religion and names his home a tax exempt place of worship. When the religion goes viral, followers show up on his doorstep and the hapless guy is suddenly a cult leader.” [Note: this sounds very similar to the Family Guy episode "If I'm Dyin', I'm Lyin'"]
- Night of the Living, “a stop motion animated film about a town of peaceful monsters must learn how to fight when it is invaded by humans.” Grahame-Smith might write the script with Tim Burton producing.
- An adaptation of Stuart Kaminsky’s novel series about 40s Hollywood private eye Toby Peters (there have been 24 novels in the series since it was first published in 1977; the most recent one came out in 2004. Kaminsky died in 2009).
- Fire Teddy, which is about “an underachieving nice guy is hired as a low level employee at a corporate office. Ordered by his Machiavellian boss to fire Teddy, the newcomer can’t do it and becomes fast friends with Teddy through his futile attempts.”
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