Spec Script Deal: “Five Secrets”

Apple Original Films acquires action spec script “Five Secrets” written by Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari, based on an original short story by writer Julianna Baggott. Via Deadline:

The plot is set in a world where the average person has five secrets they’ve never told a living soul; get just one of them, and you have control over its keeper. Hedrick is a highly skilled mercenary who trades in exactly these kinds of secrets — staging elaborate near-death experiences to get powerful people to unknowingly confess to theirs. His own biggest secret is that he desperately wants out, and when his employers find out, he’ll be killed. So when he’s sent on a strange mission to extract a secret from his former mentor, he knows: figuring out the secret being kept from him will be the only way he gets out alive.

The project marks one of the first features under Chernin Entertainment’s Apple TV+ deal.

The writers are repped by CAA and 3 Arts.

Congrats to Andrew and Gabriel!

By my count, this is the 23rd spec script deal in 2025.

There were 17 spec script deals year-to-date in 2024.