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ScreenCraft Fellow/LaunchPad Winner Sells Original Pilot to Endgame Entertainment

ScreenCraft Fellow TA Snyder, one of the winners of the inaugural ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship, has sold his original pilot DEAD MEN to Endgame Entertainment. After developing the script from a feature to a pilot screenplay through ScreenCraft’s development program, the script went on to secure much industry interest and accolades, most recently winning top prize at The Tracking Board’s Launch Pad Pilot Competition this year.

Dead Men is inspired by a true story, and centers on a veteran lawman and a young idealist who struggle to lead the hunt for America’s first serial killers, roughly twenty years after America won the Revolutionary War and declared its independence. The script is a grisly crime thriller set against an authentic and unusual backdrop.

Snyder's script was selected by the Launch Pad’s panel of industry judges, who hail from companies such as CAA, Brillstein Entertainment, Vertigo Entertainment, 3 Arts, Energy Entertainment, Scott Free, among others. Per the Launch Pad release, “the pilot, which has been described as Deadwood meets Seven, was praised for its poetically crafted scenes, layered characters, and brutal and morally complex story.” Endgame Entertainment is the production company behind films including Looper, and Hotel Rwanda. The company has several films on the horizon including David Lowery’s Old Man and the Gun, starring Robert Redford and Casey Affleck, picked up earlier this year by Fox Searchlight. Endgame is also producing Netflix’s real-life drama Come Sunday, with Martin Sheen.

Updated: 07/15/2017

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