MGM Has Itch For Schut's "Witch"

MGM has purchased Bragi Schut Jr.'s spec script "Season of the Witch", with plans for Mosaic Media Group to produce the movie. The story revolves around a group of knights in 14th century France who must transport a woman accused of witchcraft to a mountain abbey, where the monks will seek to understand and destroy her powers, believed to be the source of the Black Plague.

The studio paid mid-to-high six figures for the screenplay, which was one of 6 chosen in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' Don & Gee Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting competition. The script has garnered comparisons to Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal."

Last year, Schut's script "The Last Voyage of the Demeter," about the ship that carried Dracula's coffin from Transylvania to England, was set up at Phoenix Pictures to be directed by Robert Schwentke.

Source: Variety