Black List alums Shea Mirzai and Evan Mirzai have been hired to write the high school comedy “Ultra” for Sony Pictures and Will Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment, TheWrap has learned.
Plot details are being kept under wraps but the project is described as an R-rated event movie starring teenagers. The idea was hatched internally at Overbrook before the Mirzai twins pitched Caleeb Pinkett during production of Sony’s football drama “Concussion,” who bought it then and there.
Will Smith, James Lassiter and Pinkett will produce for Overbrook along with Sandy Stern, who runs R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe’s company Single Cell Pictures.