Nate Bargatze Circling ‘Fantasy Camp’ Comedy At United Artists

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios‘ United Artists and Scott Stuber have acquired Fantasy Camp, a function comedy pitch from Nicholas Thomas. High comedian Nate Bargatze is eyeing to star, along with his Nateland Leisure producing alongside 2.0 Leisure and 59th & Prairie Leisure.

Sources stated the challenge landed at UA following a multi-studio bidding battle, with the deal coming in at seven figures.

Fantasy Camp follows a bunch of buddies at a make-or-break second of their lives, as they head to Dwyane Wade’s fantasy camp in Miami to relive their basketball goals. However what begins as enjoyable turns into a battle for satisfaction, function, and one final win.

Thomas will write the script. Producers embrace UA’s Stuber and Nick Nesbitt, 2.0’s Sophie Cassidy and Matt Crespy, 59th & Prairie’s Wade and Jon Marcus, and Bargatze for Nateland.

A Grammy nominee based mostly in Nashville who got here in because the top-grossing touring comedian of 2024, Bargatze has just lately been at work on The Breadwinner, a household comedy that he co-wrote and is producing for TriStar, which can mark his first huge starring car on the function facet. Just lately partnering with Deadline on the launch of our Comedy Means Enterprise publication and podcast, and set to host the Emmys for the primary time in September, he’s represented by UTA, Brillstein Leisure Companions, and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis.

Finest identified for co-writing Let’s Be Cops, twentieth Century Fox’s buddy cop motion comedy starring Damon Wayans Jr. and Jake Johnson, Thomas started his leisure profession by the twentieth Century Fox Writers Studio. He’s represented by Leisure 360 and attorneys Alex Kohner and Mitchell Ostrove at Yorn, Levine, Barnes.

Reaching a deal to revive United Artists final summer season, following his tenure at Netflix, Stuber’s different upcoming tasks embrace Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein for Netflix, and twentieth’s Deliver Me from Nowhere, the Scott Cooper-directed drama that stars The Bear‘s Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen. Each movies are set to premiere this fall. Just lately, UA has additionally nabbed the rights to Freida McFadden’s bestselling thriller The Tenant, in addition to a feature package that can see Conclave‘s Edward Berger telling the story of Evan Gershkovich, the wrongfully imprisoned overseas correspondent from the Wall Road Journal. Moreover, the corporate has continued casting up its Highlander film after bringing it over from Lionsgate, with Marisa Abela coming aboard to star reverse Henry Cavill.

2.0 Leisure, led by Sophie Cassidy, is at the moment filming the Ted Kaczynski thriller Unabom, starring Russell Crowe, Jacob Tremblay, Shailene Woodley and Annabelle Wallis, for Netflix — a challenge on which we have been first to report. Presently, the corporate can be creating a function based mostly on paranormal radio host Art Bell, with Paul Giamatti connected to star, in addition to a function based mostly on ’80s crime drama Wiseguy.