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EXCLUSIVE: Stampede Ventures has acquired the rights to Nick Schenk’s action spec script Galahad, and is beginning to package it as a film, eyeing A-list directors for the first feature in a potential new franchise. The film will follow a badass ex-American special forces soldier who goes on a berserker…

Screenwriter Nick Schenk has signed with Management 360 for representation. His next project, Cry Macho starring and directed by Clint Eastwood, wrapped production in December. Schenk is the first writer to pen three projects for Eastwood, his previous screenplays, Gran Torino and The Mule ranking as the veteran…

Fox has given a second script commitment plus penalty to a legal drama from Empire co-creator Danny Strong this season. Written and executive produced by Manhunt: Unabomber co-executive producer Nick Schenk, Midnight Lawyer is about a lawyer who gets his clients out of trouble they get into after dark. He used to live…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO has put in development Royal, a comedy project from Gran Torino writer Nick Schenk and Rescue Me co-creator Peter Tolan. Created and written by Schenk, Royal centers on a working-class, old-school, politically incorrect, tell-it-as-it-is biker who is forced back into ‘the real world’ to take…