Deadline‘s Michael Fleming is reporting that Sony Pictures has acquired The Wells Initiative, a pitch for a sci-fi/action adventure in which Jeffrey Wells, owner and author of Hollywood Elsewhere, actually experiences the events, screenings, mood swings, wifi failures and occasional thought-quakes that turn up in his daily column. The pitch, Fleming reports, is by Ben Lustig and Jake Thornton, authors of Winter’s Knight, the Viking-mythology-tinged origin story of St. Nick and Christmas. The Wells Initiative will be produced by Trigger Street’s Dana Brunetti and Carter Swan. Seriously…this would be just as interesting if not more so than the actual Wells Initiative, which is about H.G. Wells. A reality show at the very least.
