Most people hate seminars. And rightly so, too – boring things, all blue curtains, slide shows and droning voices. But CBS Films love seminars. Or, more accurately, they love The Seminar.
The nascent mini-studio has paid a pretty penny – low-to-mid six figures, according to The Hollywood Reporter – for a spec screenplay by Richard D’Ovidio, called... well, you can guess, can't you?
Billed as a cross between Disturbia and The Game, it tells the tale of an 18 year-old who rubs his parents up the wrong way so much that, rather than docking his pocket money, telling him to go to his room, or grounding him, they instead hire a sinister consulting firm to mess with his reality.
With parents like these etc. etc.
Sounds interesting, if wildly implausible. Empire’s parents were never so harsh, except that one time our father caught us indulging in a spot of self-pleasure. “Stop doing that, Empire,” he said. “You’ll go blind.” “Dad,” we replied, “we’re over here.” (Thanks to the late, great Bob Monkhouse for that joke)
Anyway, though it’s early days yet, the invocation of Disturbia’s name gives this a good chance of being made, we’d reckon. Of course, Shia is too old now for the ‘Shia LaBeouf role’, so expect the lead to go to the next hot young Shia LaBeouf type. Any ideas who that might be, readers?