Walt Disney Pictures has hired Ron Burch and David Kidd to write The Last Lap. The studio bought the feature treatment and underlying feature rights to Mike Leonard's manuscript in January. Offspring Entertainment's Jennifer Gibgot and Rachel Pfeffer are producing. The comedy is based on the real-life story of Leonard, a Chicago-based feature correspondent for NBC's Today who dropped everything and rented an RV to travel across America for a month, taking his funny and eccentric parents to see the places and people who shaped their lives. Following them in another RV were Leonard's three grown children, including a daughter who gave birth at journey's end. The story was a featured segment on Today, and Leonard's book will be published next year by Ballantine.
- 8/26/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Working Title is picking up Suicide Squad, a spec by Christopher Dean Johnston. The comedy centers on an ex-con who scores a job at a suicide crisis hot line. Looking for respect and a healthy payday, he recruits a ragtag group of suicidal outcasts to help him knock over a horse track. ICM-repped Johnston wrote the action comedy Pants on Fire, which is set up at the Walt Disney Co. with Rachel Pfeffer producing, and Hard Look, which is at Alcon Entertainment. He began his career as stand-up comic in Chicago and Los Angeles.
- 12/17/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Walt Disney Co. has picked up the teen comedy pitch Princess Boot Camp from writer Caryn Lucas and producer Rachel Pfeffer. Boot Camp is a comedy about a group of spoiled teenage girls whose parents can't take their indulgent behavior anymore and send them to away to boot camp, where the "spoil" is squeezed out of them. The project was brought to Pfeffer and Disney by Pfeffer Film production vp Asha Kurian and is being overseen for the studio by Disney production execs Kristin Burr and LouAnne Brickhouse. The project marks Lucas' first time working with Disney. She previously co-wrote the Warner Bros. Pictures comedy Miss Congeniality and was a co-executive producer on the WB television series What I Like About You. She is repped by Marathon Entertainment and the Gersh Agency. Pfeffer, who most recently produced crazy/beautiful, has a number of projects in the works at Disney through her studio-based Pfeffer Film production banner, including the action drama Until the Sea Shall Free Them and the comedies Tempting Fate and Pants on Fire.
- 4/16/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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