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Shane Salerno's 'License to Steal' Pitch Lands at Paramount
FirstShowing.net —
... Paramount, under its new leadership, paid seven figures upfront to acquire an action-comedy pitch called License to Steal today. The project is "loosely" based on an article at Salon.com (read it here) about the high-end repossession business, in which agents travel all the world to reclaim "play toys" including private jets and speedboats. ...
Transformers Writers Have A License To Steal
Cinema Blend News —
... says theyve got a License to Steal . We hope you enjoyed our half-hearted world-play. The films name is License to Steal and theyre set to produce it for the Paramount Film Group. Its an action-comedy based on a January 2009 Salon.com article on high-end repo men who take back the toys of the rich when they can no longer afford the rent. It cant be easy to tow a Lear jet. Orci and Kurtzman wont write it, instead theyve brought in Shane Salerno to pen the script. His adaptation will apparently be based on a longer version of the story than the one originally ...
Kurtzman and Orci to Produce License to Steal
TheMovingPicture.net —
... The project is loosely based on Marc Weingarten’s Salon.com article about the high-end repo business, in which agents travel all over the world to reclaim play toys including private jets and speedboats. ...
ORCI & KURTZMAN’S NEXT PROJECT
Filmdrunk —
... Shane Salerno (Armageddon, AVP: R) will pen the script. Project is loosely based on Marc Weingarten’s Salon.com article about the high-end repo business, in which agents travel all the world to reclaim play toys including private jets and speedboats. ...
Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci Have 'License to Steal'
Cinematical —
... , License to Steal is actually based on Marc Weingarten's Salon.com article The Learjeat Repo Man, which examines world of repo men. Not just any repo men that come after your flatscreen or your Prius, but the "big game" hunter who steal / repossess private jets, yachts, helicopters, and whatever else it is rich, corrupt people own. For the dangers they face (and oh, do they face dangers) they receive a cut of the overall value. ...
