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Murder in the White House
- Jonathan Stokes
- Set Up
- No Agent
- Thriller
- Black List
- 2020
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Market: Tue, 10 Mar 2020Sold: Tue, 10 Mar 2020
Producer: Neal Moritz, Toby Jaffe
ManagerScott Carr (Management SGC)
LawyerGreg Gellman (Morris Yorn)
ProductionOriginal Film
StudioParamount Pictures
3-1-2020 - Paramount Pictures made a preemptive mid-six against seven-figure deal, as per DEADLINE.
Producer: Neal Moritz, Toby Jaffe
ManagerScott Carr (Management SGC)
LawyerGreg Gellman (Morris Yorn)
ProductionOriginal Film
StudioParamount Pictures
3-1-2020 - Paramount Pictures made a preemptive mid-six against seven-figure deal, as per DEADLINE.
A Knives Out-style whodunit, set inside the White House. The President is murdered during a private dinner, and a female Secret Service agent has till morning to discover which guest is the killer before a peace agreement fails and leads to war.
After the president is found dead in the Oval Office, a young female agent must figure out who of the six people having dinner with him is the killer.
A young secret service agent, who's determined yet vulnerable, has to solve the locked-room murder mystery of the president.
After the President of the United States is murdered at a dinner party, a secret service agent must determine which of the dinner guests is the killer, while trying to avoid a violent geopolitical disaster.
Film
Female Protagonist, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Detective, Mystery, Cop/FBI/CIA, Espionage/Spy, Murder, Political, Forensic, Ensemble Cast, Military, Affair, Agent, Betrayal, Criminal, Death, Espionage, Female, Government, Investigation, President, Secrets, Spy
114
PG-13
Medium
F
Unspecified
30
Average
Knives Out (2019)
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Dr Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Present / Five Hours
White House: office / corridor / bunker / bunker hallway / bathroom / war room / break room / briefing room / West Wing / Oval Office / dining room.
While MIA is in an office in the White House making out with HOLLAND, she hears a scream, goes to the Oval Office and finds the president of the United States stabbed to death.
Right away, she gets the suspects together. They were having dinner with the president: FIRST LADY WOOD, AMBASSADOR KAMENEV, SPEAKER BROOKES, ADARA and VICE-PRESIDENT STEELE.
Mia takes them to the bunker and forbids everyone from leaving. The vice president wants to leave to address the country. After a discussion, he agrees to stay.
The speaker talks to Mia about Steele. She says he is misogynist and that he is against the Syrian peace accords the president would approve. But Mia says that she also has a possible motive for the crime.
The Chief Server GOLDIE shows up and says that there were six knives in the set and that Adara did not have one because she is a vegetarian.
Mia gets the news that the president is officially dead. She cites Greek drama to the suspects. The intelligence comes in and says that the war is about to start in Syria.
Mia presents herself officially to everyone and states that she will need to draw from...
Right away, she gets the suspects together. They were having dinner with the president: FIRST LADY WOOD, AMBASSADOR KAMENEV, SPEAKER BROOKES, ADARA and VICE-PRESIDENT STEELE.
Mia takes them to the bunker and forbids everyone from leaving. The vice president wants to leave to address the country. After a discussion, he agrees to stay.
The speaker talks to Mia about Steele. She says he is misogynist and that he is against the Syrian peace accords the president would approve. But Mia says that she also has a possible motive for the crime.
The Chief Server GOLDIE shows up and says that there were six knives in the set and that Adara did not have one because she is a vegetarian.
Mia gets the news that the president is officially dead. She cites Greek drama to the suspects. The intelligence comes in and says that the war is about to start in Syria.
Mia presents herself officially to everyone and states that she will need to draw from...