Sony Lands Four-Quadrant Family Pitch ‘Holiday Inn’ From Ben Zazove And Evan Turner

EXCLUSIVE: In a highly competitory situation, Sony Pictures has landed a characteristic transportation titled Holiday Inn from writers Ben Zazove and Evan Turner.

Plot specifications are being kept nether wraps, but nan task is described arsenic a four-quadrant family movie. No connection yet connected who will beryllium producing.

Writers Zazove and Turner are behind Officer Exchange, an action-comedy successful improvement astatine Amazon MGM Studios, pinch The Safran Company producing and John Cena attached to star. They besides wrote the Ferris Bueller spinoff Sam & Victor’s Day Off for Paramount, were tapped to pen a Space Invaders film based connected nan Taito arcade crippled for New Line, and wrote a book based connected nan video game Duke Nukem for Legendary.

Zazove and Turner’s erstwhile film, The Out-Laws — an action-comedy starring Adam Devine, Pierce Brosnan and Ellen Barkin — debuted astatine #1 connected Netflix. Zazove is besides known for his activity on the Paramount animated characteristic Sherlock Gnomes.

Both scribes are repped by Verve, Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment, and McKuin, Frankel & Whitehead.

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