Proving that scripts written on spec are still ocassionally currency in Hollywood, the horror thriller Bed Rest has just come out of practically nowhere to get the studios excited. Lori Evans Taylor is the writer, and MGM the company that grabbed the rights, making a preemptive deal for a cool six figures. Chris Sparling (Buried) will produce.
Sounding like a meaty one-woman show for the right actress, Bed Rest revolves around an expectant woman, you guessed it, confined to her duvet due to complications with her pregnancy. And while she's there, "bad things happen". Films like Disturbia (and by association Rear Window) are being thrown around as comparisons, but we'd suggest there's a bit of Stephen King's Gerald's Game in that set-up too.
Spec scripts were big business back in the '80s and '90s, with writers like Shane Black and Joe Eszterhas coining it before the bubble burst. They do still turn up occasionally though: David Guggenheim's Safe House is one recent example, and the Black List exists to provide a showcase for the best original screenplays currently going unproduced.
It isn't quite an overnight, rags-to-riches fairytale story for Taylor: she's been around for a while as a writer, producer and occasional bit-part actress. Her biggest credits so far are for TV, as story producer on the reality-based likes of Lucky Dog, 1000 Ways To Die and Pranked. She was also the producer and head writer of Fox's soap Wicked Wicked Games for 66 episodes between 2006 and 2007.
Karen Rosenfelt (Twilight) is also among the producers, but there are no start or release dates, or casting details so far.
from Empire News
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