Burton comes upstairs

By Pat Torfe

Posted 20 years ago

Last Updated on July 28, 2021

According to Hollywood Reporter, 20th Century Fox is looking to buy Mark Burton’s spec THEY CAME FROM UPSTAIRS, with the sale estimated at between $1.75 and $2.25 million.

The high-concept adventure is pegged as ‘HOME ALONE meets GREMLINS‘, which is an automatic thumbs-up in my book! UPSTAIRS originally went out as a pitch, and drew interest from several studios. Burton (whose other credits include MADAGASCAR and WALLAVE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT) however, decided to pull the project on the market and write the screenplay himself.

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Pat Torfe

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Favorite Movies: Inception, Gremlins, Dog Soldiers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), John Carpenter's read more The Thing, The Evil Dead Trilogy, Halloween (1978), Friday The 13th Parts IV, VI, VII, Predator, Transformers: The Movie, Aliens, Ghostbusters, The Ultimate Versus, Batman, Blade, The Creature From The Black Lagoon, Super Troopers, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, The Crow, Freddy Vs Jason

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