New Regency Buys Pitch For Hellbent, A Supernatural Prison Movie
By David Wharton 2011-11-21 16:54:19discussion comments New
Regency Buys Pitch For Hellbent, A Supernatural Prison Movie
image You'd think being stuck in prison would be a horrible
enough situation to generate plenty of dramatic tension and
storytelling possibilities. The brutality, the tedium, the
driving urge to escape... you could spin a thousand tales out of
those concepts and many titles have. But noooooo, Hollywood
won't just be satisfied with the mere terror of incarceration;
they've got to spice it up. So they add gigantic magical black
dudes, or supervillains, or Kurt Russell in an eyepatch. Now
there's another "prison+" movie coming down the pike, and New
Regency just paid six figures for it off of nothing more than a
pitch. That must have been one spooky-good sell.  Deadline is
reporting that New Regency picked up Hellbent, a "prison escape
movie with supernatural elements" based off screenwriter Aron
Eli Coleite's pitch. That descri