Spec Script Deal: “You Are Leaving The American Sector”

Parallel Films acquires spy thriller spec script “You are Leaving the American Sector” written by Jared Cowie. From Deadline:

The spec centers on a young CIA officer stationed in West Berlin in the early 1980s who uncovers a classified military operation that threatens to tip the world into a nuclear war. The idea is based on the controversial 1983 NATO military exercise codenamed Able Archer ’83 which saw Western powers simulate a period of conflict escalation. It has been described by some historians as among the closest times the world has come to nuclear conflict since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Cowie is repped by UTA and Jon Kanak.

By my count, this is the 33rd spec script deal in 2018.

There were 48 spec script deals year-to-date in 2017.