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Script Sales: DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, ASHLAND, and Disney rides ON A PALE HORSE


Jill Cargerman will write "Domestic Affairs," a romantic comedy for Warner Bros. based on an idea by producer Dylan Sellers. The deal comes after the "Spin City" vet sold two series pilots. She set up an untitled comedy at CBS about a woman who becomes the personal assistant to a famous pop singer and gets a rude introduction to the thrush's dysfunctional family. The writer also sold an untitled comedy to ABC with a premise not far removed from Cargerman's own story: A single mother moves her three children to a fancy suburb to get them into a good school. Problem is, she can't possibly afford to live there.

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Firm Films has set up the supernatural pitch "Ashland" at Disney's Touchstone Pictures, with Brad Silberling ("City of Angels," "Moonlight Mile") attached to helm. Firm Films' Beau Flynn is helping oversee development of the project, details of which are being kept tightly under wraps, though it is loosely described as a faith-based supernatural thriller with police procedural elements. Pic was acquired by Touchstone based on a pitch from screenwriter Ron Brinkerhoff ("D-Tox," "The Guardian").


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Disney has made a preemptive acquisition of the Piers Anthony fantasy novel "On a Pale Horse." (Reportedly attaching Jamie Foxx to star as well.) Paul Guay ("Liar Liar") will adapt the novel for a mid-six-figure advance. The book is the first in a series of seven fantasy novels by Anthony, best known for the fantasy novel "Xanth." In "On a Pale Horse," Foxx would play an insurance agent so distraught with his life that he plans a suicide. When the Grim Reaper makes a premature appearance to claim his body, the man gets spooked and fatally shoots the angel of death. He is then drafted into becoming his replacement.
Subsequent novels in the series deal with characters like Father Time and Mother Nature, and the hope is to establish a franchise that branches off to include those mythic characters.

(Source: Reuters/Variety)

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