Silver
Warner Bros. and Silver Pictures have acquired “Conviction,” a spec script by tyro scribe Jonathan Herman. Deal was for low six figures.
Story follows a mastermind bank robber who serves five years in prison following a botched heist. He is forced by an FBI agent to entrap his protege, who’s in the midst of a multimillion-dollar job.
Joel Silver will produce with Andrew Rona. Alex Heineman will be an executive producer, along with Luber Roklin Entertainment’s Stephen Crawford and Matt Luber. Crawford worked closely with the writer to develop the script.
Sale is the first for Herman, who began as an assistant to producer Tom Sternberg and was a development exec for Canal Plus before he quit three years ago to write full time.
WMA made the sale.
Contact the Variety newsroom at
news@variety.com