Spec Script Deal: “Intruders”

Paramount Pictures acquires science fiction thriller spec script “Intruders” written by James V. Simpson. From Deadline:

Paramount has landed Intruders, a script by Armored screenwriter James V. Simpson that is best described as an alien home invasion thriller. The concept is inspired by Close Encounters of the Third Kind and the “Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter,” in which a Kentucky family claimed to have survived an all-night alien home-invasion attempt.

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Home invasion has become a hot genre. Blumhouse recently made a deal for Invasion, a spec script by John Swetnam and Harris Wilkinson that wraps a ticking-clock sci-fi premise with immigration for a thriller that revolves around a home invasion that happens during an alien invasion.

Yet again, Hollywood makes a creative decision reflecting their ‘similar but different’ mindset. Two home invasion meets aliens projects selling within a month of each other.

Simpson is repped by Verve.

By my count, this is the 10th spec script deal of 2018.

There were 20 spec script deals year-to-date in 2017.