Given the daily announcements of this reboot or that prequel, it's depressing out there for a screenwriter. The iconic dream of writing an original script and hitting it big overnight often seems to have faded into impossibility. Consider, then, the case of new screenwriter Lauryn Kahn, as delivered by THR. Kahn just sold a spec comedy script entitled He's Fucking Perfect to Fox 2000 for somewhere around a million bucks. It's being produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. Cynicism be damned! The dream is alive! Well, sort of. One small but crucial detail is that Kahn had a nice little in: she's worked as McKay's assistant at Ferrell and McKay's Gary Sanchez Productions for several years now. An assistant gig is hardly the magical skeleton key to making it big in Hollywood, but it certainly didn't hurt her chances of selling a comedy script that she was working for two...
- 10/20/2011
- cinemablend.com
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