EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has inked a deal for Jill Blankenship to pen Castle, a medieval action film stemming from an original idea from Chris Bremner‘s Unknown Quantity.
Plot details are being kept under wraps. Bremner will produce alongside his partner Jeff Arkuss, who we’re told was instrumental in the deal.
A TV showrunner jumping into film for the first time, Blankenship with Castle becomes the rare female scribe invited to tackle muscular action within the studio space. Alongside Ava DuVernay, she previously co-created superhero drama Naomi for The CW, also serving as showrunner.
Blankenship has developed multiple times in television, including shows for Amazon and Netflix. She started her career on TNT’s The Last Ship, and in the Berlanti camp, before going on to work on Sweet Tooth for Netflix and Daredevil: Born Again for Marvel/Disney+. She also has the Black List thriller Trapped set up with Sarah Bremner and Noah Oppenheim’s Prologue Entertainment and is repped by WME, Kaplan/Perrone, and attorneys Abel Lezcano and Chris Namba.
After writing Sony’s recent hit Bad Boys films, Bad Boys for Life and Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Bremner’s Unknown Quantity was signed to a writing and producing deal with the studio. As a producer, Bremner has several projects set up at Sony Pictures, including Permission by Dan Roe and You Up by Gabe Delahaye. Bremner and Unknown Quantity are repped by WME, Kaplan/Perrone, and attorneys Greg Slewett and Deb Lintz.
