Exclusive: Erik Feig’s Picturestart and Patrick Wachsberger’s Picture Perfect Federation have set Luce and Cloverfield Paradox filmmaker Julius Onah to direct their college admissions thriller Bad Genius, which is gearing up for a summer shoot.
Luce scribe J.C. Lee, whose credits as a writer and co-producer also include series such as How To Get Away With Murder and Looking, has scripted the feature with Onah.
As previously announced, the film is an English-language remake of the hit 2017 Thai film by Nattawut Poonpiriya. The US-set adaptation is being described as a high-octane thriller about a group of entrepreneurial high school seniors who team up to take down a rigged college admissions system. Casting discussions are underway.
Former Lionsgate film chiefs Wachsberger and Feig are producing and will be overseeing sales and finance in coming weeks. International distributors are expected to be a key part of the finance.
Both execs...
Luce scribe J.C. Lee, whose credits as a writer and co-producer also include series such as How To Get Away With Murder and Looking, has scripted the feature with Onah.
As previously announced, the film is an English-language remake of the hit 2017 Thai film by Nattawut Poonpiriya. The US-set adaptation is being described as a high-octane thriller about a group of entrepreneurial high school seniors who team up to take down a rigged college admissions system. Casting discussions are underway.
Former Lionsgate film chiefs Wachsberger and Feig are producing and will be overseeing sales and finance in coming weeks. International distributors are expected to be a key part of the finance.
Both execs...
- 2/4/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Felicity Huffman won’t care for this one. Erik Feig’s Picturestart and Patrick Wachsberger’s Picture Perfect Entertainment are developing an English-language remake of a Thai heist film in which a group of high school seniors team up to take down a rigged college-admissions system.
The remake is of the 2017 Thai film “Bad Genius” (“Chalard Games Goeng”), which was the highest-grossing Thai film of 2017 and also the highest-grossing Thai film in its international release. Nattawat Poonpiriya directed and produced the film from Gdh 559 about a high school genius who travels to Sydney, Australia, to take an international exam and then send the results back to her friends in Thailand before the exam takes place back home.
Incredibly, Picturestart and Picture Perfect secured the rights to the remake before the current college admissions scandal involving actresses Huffman and Lori Laughlin broke in March.
Also Read: Felicity Huffman Pleads Guilty in...
The remake is of the 2017 Thai film “Bad Genius” (“Chalard Games Goeng”), which was the highest-grossing Thai film of 2017 and also the highest-grossing Thai film in its international release. Nattawat Poonpiriya directed and produced the film from Gdh 559 about a high school genius who travels to Sydney, Australia, to take an international exam and then send the results back to her friends in Thailand before the exam takes place back home.
Incredibly, Picturestart and Picture Perfect secured the rights to the remake before the current college admissions scandal involving actresses Huffman and Lori Laughlin broke in March.
Also Read: Felicity Huffman Pleads Guilty in...
- 5/16/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Original is highest grossing Thai film internationally.
Picturestart founder Erik Feig is teaming up with Patrick Wachsberger’s Picture Perfect Entertainment on Bad Genius, an English-language remake of 2017 Thai hit Chalard Games Goeng.
The partners will develop, produce and finance the project, and Eva Anderson has been brought on to write the script.
Nattawut Poonpiriya directed and Thai film studio Gdh 559 Company Limited produced the original about entrepreneurial high school seniors who take down the rigged college-admissions system.
Jessica Switch and Julia Enescu will oversee for Picturestart, and the parties secured rights before news of the Us college admissions scandal broke.
Picturestart founder Erik Feig is teaming up with Patrick Wachsberger’s Picture Perfect Entertainment on Bad Genius, an English-language remake of 2017 Thai hit Chalard Games Goeng.
The partners will develop, produce and finance the project, and Eva Anderson has been brought on to write the script.
Nattawut Poonpiriya directed and Thai film studio Gdh 559 Company Limited produced the original about entrepreneurial high school seniors who take down the rigged college-admissions system.
Jessica Switch and Julia Enescu will oversee for Picturestart, and the parties secured rights before news of the Us college admissions scandal broke.
- 5/16/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Erik Feig’s Picturestart and Patrick Wachsberger’s Picture Perfect Entertainment are developing, producing and attached to finance the English-language remake of the hit 2017 Thai movie Bad Genius (Chalard Games Goeng).
Eva Anderson has been tapped to write the adaptation of the film which was written and directed by Nattawut Poonpiriya. Jessica Switch and Julia Enescu will oversee for Picturestart.
Picturestart’s adaptation is a high-stakes, high-octane thriller heist about a group of entrepreneurial high school seniors who team up to take down the rigged college admissions system. Rights were secured before the current college admissions scandal broke.
Anderson is a co-ep for USA’s Briarpatch and a consulting producer for AMC’s Dispatches from Elsewhere. She was previously a staff writer and producer for You’re the Worst on FX. She is represented by Reign Agency and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner & Klein.
Bad Genius...
Eva Anderson has been tapped to write the adaptation of the film which was written and directed by Nattawut Poonpiriya. Jessica Switch and Julia Enescu will oversee for Picturestart.
Picturestart’s adaptation is a high-stakes, high-octane thriller heist about a group of entrepreneurial high school seniors who team up to take down the rigged college admissions system. Rights were secured before the current college admissions scandal broke.
Anderson is a co-ep for USA’s Briarpatch and a consulting producer for AMC’s Dispatches from Elsewhere. She was previously a staff writer and producer for You’re the Worst on FX. She is represented by Reign Agency and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner & Klein.
Bad Genius...
- 5/16/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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