Spec Script Deal: “Don’t Go in the Water”

Universal Pictures acquires horror spec script “Don’t Go in the Water” written by Peter Gaffney. From Deadline:

Universal Pictures has paid mid- to high-six figures for Don’t Go in the Water, a Peter Gaffney spec script that has 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy and Dan Levine and Lit Entertainment’s Adam Kolbrenner producing with Adam Rodin.

Script, being called a suspenseful monster movie, is the first spec deal for Verve since the agency agreed to the WGA Code of Conduct. Gaffney is a New York-based writer who previously set up the sci-fi specs Harvest at LeVision Entertainment and Terrestrial at Lionsgate.

Gaffney is repped by Verve and Lit Entertainment Group.

By my count, this is the 13th spec script deal in 2019.

There were 17 spec script deals year-to-date in 2018.