IP Picks🔎: The Greatest Game You Never Heard Of
âž• a farcical plan to build a real-life gay utopia, a former child star hunts her sister's killer and a hot Elin Hilderband holiday drama goes back on the market
Welcome to The Optionist. As always, thanks for reading along. And to the new subscribers who joined this week: Welcome aboard.
One housekeeping note: We’ll be taking a Fourth of July holiday break next week, but will return the following Friday with our regular list of picks. Speaking of the holidays, I know everyone is scrambling to clear off their desks so they can enjoy some time off (which is why we decided to come out a day early this week), so we’re gonna dive right into our curation of great IP available for optioning, beach-worthy reads included.
This week’s picks include four true stories ripe for adaptation and a new Hollywood noir. The full rundown:
A Hollywood-set noir murder mystery that finds a washed-up actress investigating a death she thinks might be linked to the unsolved two-decade-old killing of her rising-star sister.
A true-life comedy about how a group of gay activists in the early ’70s schemed to flood California’s smallest county with new residents, take it over and turn it into a gay paradise.
A true-crime con story with Madoff-like undertones about a corrupt sports memorabilia dealer and the damage he caused when his fraudulent empire collapsed.
A true inspirational sports drama from WWII about the high school team at the Gila River internment camp beating the 53-0 Arizona state high school champions.
A true treasure hunt story centered on an eccentric recluse who challenges people to find his buried treasure by following the enigmatic clues in a poem.
A family Christmas drama set at the patriarch’s Nantucket inn where everyone returns for Christmas each year.
