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NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Intrepid Pictures has purchased Dave Kalstein's novel "Prodigy" and hired him to adapt the sci-fi thriller into a screenplay, with production targeted for next year.


The story, set in the near future, centers on an elite prep school that promises to turn teenagers into geniuses through a drug and diet regimen for a hefty half-million-dollar tuition. When several alumni turn up dead, the school's impoverished valedictorian, on scholarship, is assigned to investigate the murders, leading him to a fellow student who might be the victim of a cover-up.


Kalstein has some experience with prep schools. He was expelled from two of them and a disciplinary boarding school before attending the University of Pennsylvania and selling his first screenplay, "Living Off Interest," to Crossroads Entertainment at age 25.


Intrepid has a first-look deal with Rogue Pictures, the genre arm of Focus Features. They recently partnered on Vondie Curtis Hall's gang drama "Waist Deep."


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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Nala Films has picked up Eric Gravning's comedy spec "Mr. Burnout," about a bitter English teacher who accepts a bet and renews his faith in teaching.


The spec sale represents the first for Gravning who was awarded the James A. Michener fellowship from University of Texas where he received his master's degree in fine arts.


Gravning's script tells the story of a small town English teacher who spirals from teacher of the year to a bitter, rude individual after a decade in the classroom. It is only when he accepts a bet from an attractive new teacher to get three of his most problematic students into a top college that he renews his faith in teaching and the future.


Nala Films expects to begin production in early 2007.

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