Warner Bros has made neophyte scribe Nicholas Schoenfeld a nice deal for his original pitch
Attila, an origin story about the leader of the Huns who brazenly attacked Rome and lay waste to much of Europe before dying under mysterious circumstances on his wedding night. While many in Hollywood make their way into the industry through the connections of film programs of schools like USC, Schoenfeld was helped by a Brown connection. Schoenfeld, a Classics major at the Ivy League school, signed with ICM agent and Brown alum Todd Hoffman after finding the reps name in a Brown University alumni network. Hoffman signed Schoenfeld after reading his script
Rome Versus Rome, and introduced him to about 17 producers on the then-undergrads winter recess. When he graduated, Schoenfelds script
The Scottish Lady (now called
Lady Of Blood And Fury, it is a reinterpretation of
Macbeth with Lady Macbeth the heroic figure) got the attention of Mary Parent, who is boarding the project as producer. Warner Bros execs liked his work, and Denise Di Novi and Alison Greenspan sat him down with execs Matt Cherniss and Niija Kuykendall (the latter also a Brown grad) and three weeks later had a deal for his pitch
Attila, about the formative years of one of the worst men ever to walk the earth. The tone is similar to the good-man-gone-bad pic
Dracula Year Zero, which was written by Schoenfelds mentors, Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama. Schoenfeld is now developing two original projects with Warner Bros-based producers David Heyman and Basil Iwanyk. Hes managed by ICM and Management 360.
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