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Big Spec Script Sales Are Back, Baby!

It's not quite a Shane Black-1990s frenzy, but the industry is growing allergic to big packages — and writers (seriously!) are cashing in

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Dec 17, 2024
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BIDDING WAR STORIES Shane Black sold The Last Boy Scout to Warner Bros. for $1.75M in 1990 ($4.2M today), a record for a spec until Joe Eszterhas sold one months later for $3M ($7.2M today) titled Basic Instinct, which would go on to star Sharon Stone. (Photo illustration by The Ankler. Black: Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty Images; Stone: TriStar Pictures)

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