Spec Script Deal: Untitled Teen Comedy

A24 acquires raunchy untitled teen comedy spec script written by Morgan Lehmann. Via Deadline:

Following competitive bidding, A24 has landed rights to an untitled raunchy teen comedy spec from writer Morgan Lehmann, with Fruit Tree on board to produce. Ley Line Entertainment will produce alongside Fruit Tree, with Fruit Tree’s Emma Stone, Dave McCary and Ali Herting and Ley Line’s Tim Headington and Theresa Steele Page producing. Ley Line is co-financing the film.

Deadline is hearing the script is about Delaney Pitts, a nerdy teenage virgin who has a secret online life as an erotic fan fiction author.

Even with no talent attached, the script had suitors that included major studios, streamers and financiers chasing it, an impressive feat for a comedy script on its own.

Deadline also notes this: “As for Lehmann, this sale marks an impressive feat for a rising star in the comedy writing scene and furthers the narrative of a more robust feature spec market in 2025. It also signals a renewed and resurgent appetite for feature comedies.”

Music to my ears as I’m currently working on an R-rated sex comedy spec.

Congratulations, Morgan!

Morgan is repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment.

By my count, this is the 3rd spec script deal in 2025.

There were 4 spec script deals year-to-date in 2024.