1 week Ago By Justin Kroll
EXCLUSIVE: Following a competitive bidding war, A24 has landed the rights to the an untitled raunchy teen comedy spec from writer Morgan Lehmann with Fruit Tree on board to produce. Ley Line Entertainment will produce alongside Fruit Tree. Fruit Tree’s Emma Stone, Dave McCary and Ali Herting and Ley Line Entertainment’s Tim Headington and Theresa Steele Page will produce.
Ley Line Entertainment is co-financing the film. Deadline is hearing the script is about Delaney Pitts, a nerdy, teenage virgin who has a secret online life as an erotic fan fiction author. Even with no talent attached, the script had suitors that included major studios, streamers and financiers chasing it, a very impressive feat in recent memory for a comedy script on its own.
Stone, McCary and Herting continjue to show up as tastemakers who build on foundational relationships with creators which ultimately led to the script landing with Fruit Tree and A24. Watch on Deadline Related Stories WBD Lands Gisele Pelicot Doc; Sunny Side Advisory Board; Sphere Abacus To Sell 'Safehaven' - Global Briefs 'Angels In The Asylum': Production Company Behind Simon Pegg Film Files For Administration The sale marks a major win for Stone as a producer and his a throwback to the type of films like Superbad and Easy A, which helped launch her career. Fruit Tree is cementing itself as a formidable production company following the successful awards season that saw its film A Real Pain land Kieran Culkin an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
As for Lehmann, this sale marks an impressive feat for a rising star in the comedy writing scene and furthers the narrative of a more robust feature spec market in 2025, and signals a renewed and resurgent appetite for feature comedies. Fruit Tree is repped by WME, Lehmann is repped by CAA, Untitled Entertainment and Yorn Levine..
