Paramount has moved aggressively to pick up The Oberlin Incident, a horror thriller spec script by Cory Goodman, THR reports.
Details are being kept in the dark but it is described as having a high-concept plot featuring a female lead.
The script hit the town early in the week but Paramount took it off the table in a high-six-figure deal. Safehouse Pictures, run by Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell, and Adam Goldworm’s Aperture are set to produce.
Goodman has generated several high-priced deals with his specs. Lore, which sold to Warner Bros., and Hood, at Sony, were seven-figure deals. The Last Witch Hunter, the Vin Diesel starrer, began as a Goodman spec as did horror thriller Priest.