Hereafter
Dreamworks Pictures bought the rights to an original spec script titled
Hereafter by Peter Morgan. The script is being described as a "thriller" in the vein of
The Sixth Sense.
Variety.com reports that Morgan was paid a cash advance equivalent to a low-seven-figure amount against a multiple million dollar sum if the film ever gets made. Morgan was nominated for an
Oscar for his original spec screenplay for the 2006 movie
The Queen, which centered around
Queen Elizabeth II's struggles after the death of
Princess Diana.
Fast Facts
- Morgan recently sold a script titled Frost/Nixon about the post-Watergate interviews between British talk show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon. Ron Howard is directing Frost/Nixon for Universal Studios
- Morgan also wrote the screenplays for the critically acclaimed films The Last King of Scotland and The Other Boleyn Girl
- Morgan received his first major writing credit on the 1989 TV movie Shalom Joan Collins
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