Spec Script Sale: "Ness/Capone"

[Tom & Jerry]

Relativity Media buys 2010 Black List crime drama spec script "Ness/Capone" from writer Grant Pierce Myers. Via Deadline:

    Myers went back to the history books and came away with a much different version of Ness. While Kevin Costner played him as an incorruptible married choirboy who had to be taught to meet the mob on its own crooked terms, Ness/Capone's Ness is a skirt-chasing 26-year old publicity hound who seemed to get an adrenaline charge out of courting danger, kicking in doors, smashing moonshine stores and rubbing it in the noses of Capone and other mobsters.

Myers is repped by Paradigm and The Gotham Group.

By my count, this is the 28th spec script to sell in 2011.

The 28th spec script didn't sell last year until June 25th, so sales are up year-to-date.

[gointothestory.com]

[twangling_jack]

Damn. I was hoping this would be a Loch Ness monster vs. Capone story. Eh, oh well.