2005 Winner
Awarded $5000 cash prize
GARY THE TENNIS COACH
Written by Andy Stock and Rick Stempson
Directed by Danny Leiner
Starring: Seann William Scott, Randy Quaid
Produced by Seann William Scott, John Penotti, Michael Nathanson
Greenestreet Films
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An overzealous high school janitor (Seann William Scott), who has not recovered from his failed career
as a tennis pro, begins coaching his beloved sport to a group of misfits and leads them to the Nebraska
state championship.
Andy, Danny, Rick, Gordy, Peter, Heather at Roosevelt Hotel
News
*Andy Stock and Rick Stempson have done it again. The first comedy Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's Gary Sanchez Productions is producing under their deal with Paramount Vantage is none other than another screenplay written by writers discovered by BlueCat in 2005. Jeremy Piven will star in THE GOODS: THE DON READY STORY, directed by Neal Brennan. Production will begin in December in Los Angeles. The script centers on a used-car liquidator hired to save a struggling dealership during a Fourth of July weekend sale.
*RELEASE DATE: January 2008
*GARY THE TENNIS COACH panel at 2006 AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL
Andy Stock appeared on the Austin Film Festival GARY THE TENNIS COACH panel, along with the GreeneStreet
Films team, to discuss the development of GARY from screenplay to production. Joining Andy and Rick were Annie
Marter, Director of Development at GreeneStreet, producer John Penotti, and executive producer Tim Williams.
Seann William Scott
*SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT has signed on to star and co-produce GARY THE TENNIS COACH, the 2005 BlueCat Screenplay
Competition Winner, with GREENESTREET FILMS (In The Bedroom, Swimfan). Danny Leiner (Dude Where's My Car)
will direct.
*Peter Morgan (Poison Ivy), who is acting as executive producer, took interest and started shopping the
script shortly after the screenplay was selected winner.
*In November 2005, Andy and Rick were signed by the United Talent Agency. Their literary agents at UTA
are Barbara Dreyfus, Charlie Ferraro, Tracey Jacobs and Jeremy Zimmer, whose client roster includes Charlie
Kaufman, M. Night Shyamalan, Harrison Ford and Johnny Depp.
Read Andy Stock and Rick Stempson interview shortly after signing with the agents at UTA.
One of the writers shares the journey of their screenplay going from a BlueCat submission to A-List
Literary Representation and, subsequently, a sale and go picture.
Press
FILM NEWS, Austin Chronicle
'TENNIS'
FINDS ITS MATCH, Variety
SCREENPLAY BY
LINCOLN DUO HITS HOLLYWOOD'S FUNNY BONE, JournalStar.com
TENNIS
COACH IS SEEING STARS WITH HOLLYWOOD SCREENPLAY DEAL, Daily Nebraskan
INSIDE MOVIES, Austin360.com
