{"id":354648,"date":"2026-03-24T00:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/354648\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T00:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:59:07","slug":"jason-reitman-to-produce-supernatural-thriller-71-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/354648\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Reitman to Produce Supernatural Thriller 71 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tComing out on top in a competitive situation, Sony Pictures has staked claim on 71 Minutes, an original spec script from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/ian-shorr\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ian-shorr_1\" data-tag=\"ian-shorr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ian Shorr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/jason-reitman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jason-reitman_1\" data-tag=\"jason-reitman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Reitman<\/a> will produce the feature via his Ghost Corp banner along with the company\u2019s Erica Mills. He is not attached to direct at this stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWhile many of the details are being kept under the tombstones, the project is described as a real-time thriller about a man who needs to elude his pursuers in a ticking clock scenario and only has 71 minutes until the sun rises to do so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tShorr is known for his sci-fi work, penning the Antoine Fuqua-directed Paramount+ feature Infinite, which starred Mark Wahlberg and Chiwetel Ejiofor. The scribe is having a corona moment right now as this sale happens as his other script, currently untitled, is now shooting as a Warner Bros. production starring Keanu Reeves with Tim Miller at the helm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tShorr wrote 71 Minutes\u00a0on spec, and the script immediately generated massive interest, with over 20 production companies , plus some studios, chasing the project, before Sony acquired it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tReitman last directed Saturday Night, which recounted the making of the very first Saturday Night Live episode (and was also a ticking clock story), and has been producing and developing the world of Ghostbusters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tShorr is repped by WME, Bellevue Productions, and Hansen Jacobson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coming out on top in a competitive situation, Sony Pictures has staked claim on 71 Minutes, an original&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,172200,85,46,45589],"class_list":["post-354648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ian-shorr","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jason-reitman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}