EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios‘ United Artists and Scott Stuber have acquired Fantasy Camp, a characteristic comedy pitch from Nicholas Thomas. Prime comedian Nate Bargatze is eyeing to star, along with his Nateland Leisure producing alongside 2.0 Leisure and 59th & Prairie Leisure.
Sources stated the undertaking landed at UA following a multi-studio bidding battle, with the deal coming in at seven figures.
Fantasy Camp follows a bunch of associates at a make-or-break second of their lives, as they head to Dwyane Wade’s fantasy camp in Miami to relive their basketball goals. However what begins as enjoyable turns into a battle for delight, goal, and one final win.
Thomas will write the script. Producers embrace UA’s Stuber and Nick Nesbitt, 2.0’s Sophie Cassidy and Matt Crespy, 59th & Prairie’s Wade and Jon Marcus, and Bargatze for Nateland.
A Grammy nominee primarily based in Nashville who got here in because the top-grossing touring comedian of 2024, Bargatze has just lately been at work on The Breadwinner, a household comedy that he co-wrote and is producing for TriStar, which can mark his first massive starring automobile on the characteristic facet. Not too long ago partnering with Deadline on the launch of our Comedy Means Enterprise publication and podcast, and set to host the Emmys for the primary time in September, he’s represented by UTA, Brillstein Leisure Companions, and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis.
Finest recognized for co-writing Let’s Be Cops, twentieth Century Fox’s buddy cop motion comedy starring Damon Wayans Jr. and Jake Johnson, Thomas started his leisure profession by the twentieth Century Fox Writers Studio. He’s represented by Leisure 360 and attorneys Alex Kohner and Mitchell Ostrove at Yorn, Levine, Barnes.
Reaching a deal to revive United Artists final summer time, following his tenure at Netflix, Stuber’s different upcoming tasks embrace Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein for Netflix, and twentieth’s Ship Me from Nowhere, the Scott Cooper-directed drama that stars The Bear‘s Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen. Each movies are set to premiere this fall. Not too long ago, UA has additionally nabbed the rights to Freida McFadden’s bestselling thriller The Tenant, in addition to a characteristic bundle that can see Conclave‘s Edward Berger telling the story of Evan Gershkovich, the wrongfully imprisoned overseas correspondent from the Wall Road Journal. Moreover, the corporate has continued casting up its Highlander film after bringing it over from Lionsgate, with Marisa Abela coming aboard to star reverse Henry Cavill.
2.0 Leisure, led by Sophie Cassidy, is at present filming the Ted Kaczynski thriller Unabom, starring Russell Crowe, Jacob Tremblay, Shailene Woodley and Annabelle Wallis, for Netflix — a undertaking on which we have been first to report. Presently, the corporate can also be creating a characteristic primarily based on paranormal radio host Artwork Bell, with Paul Giamatti connected to star, in addition to a characteristic primarily based on ’80s crime drama Wiseguy.
