Miramax Nabs Hot Spec ‘Supermax’ By David Weil & David J. Rosen; The Picture Company Producing

EXCLUSIVE: In a six-against seven figure deal, Miramax won an auction for Supermax, a high-concept spec script written by David Weil & David J. Rosen, best known for their work on the series Hunters and Invasion.

The Picture Company partners Alex Heineman & Andrew Rona will produce the film.

Supermax is a propulsive and twist-laden action thriller featuring a story that follows two FBI agents investigating a murder that’s taken place in the world’s most secure prison.

Miramax chief Jonathan Glickman moved quickly to lock down the script, which will be fast tracked.  

Weil is currently adapting for United Artists and Conclave director Edward Berger the film about Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent who was thrown into a Russian prison for a year on bogus spying charges. Weil is also writing Extraction 3 for Netflix. He is the creator of Hunters, the Nazi-hunter series starring Al Pacino, and Solos for Amazon/MGM, and he co-created Invasion at Apple TV+ which just finished filming its third season.

Rosen is the creator and EP of Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, a new series coming from Apple TV+ starring Tatiana Maslany and directed by David Gordon Green. He also worked on Sugar and Invasion for Apple TV+ and was EP on Hunters for Amazon.

Miramax’s Spencer Ela who championed the project will oversee for the studio. 

The Picture Company is coming off the Best Picture nominated Bob Dylan film A Complete Unknown, and are in post on the James McAvoy-Julianne Moore-starrer Control for Studiocanal.

Weil is represented by CAA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Rosen by CAA, Anonymous Content and McKuin Frankel Whitehead; and The Picture Company by CAA.