EXCLUSIVE: Following aggressive bidding, A24 has landed rights to an untitled raunchy teen comedy spec from author Morgan Lehmann, with Fruit Tree on board to provide. Ley Line Entertainment will produce alongside Fruit Tree, with Fruit Tree’s Emma Stone, Dave McCary and Ali Herting and Ley Line’s Tim Headington and Theresa Steele Page producing. Ley Line is co-financing the movie.
Deadline is listening to the script is about Delaney Pitts, a nerdy teenage virgin who has a secret on-line life as an erotic fan fiction writer.
Even with no expertise hooked up, the script had suitors that included main studios, streamers and financiers chasing it, a powerful feat for a comedy script by itself. Stone, McCary and Herting proceed to indicate up as tastemakers who construct on relationships with creators, in the end resulting in the script touchdown with Fruit Tree and A24.
The sale marks a serious win for Stone as a producer and is a throwback to the kind of movies like Superbad and Easy A that helped launch her profession. Fruit Tree is cementing itself as a formidable manufacturing firm following a profitable awards season that noticed its movie A Real Pain land Kieran Culkin an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
As for Lehmann, this sale marks a powerful feat for a rising star within the comedy writing scene and furthers the narrative of a extra sturdy function spec market in 2025. It als indicators a renewed and resurgent urge for food for function comedies.
Fruit Tree is repped by WME. Lehmann is repped by CAA, Untitled Entertainment and Yorn Levine.