Paramount has bought Marc Haimes’ family action script Jitters, to be produced by Benderspink, says Variety.
Described as in the vein of Gremlins, the story centers on a dysfunctional, recession-struck family that moves into a new neighborhood and is terrorized by superbugs.
Haimes boarded DreamWorks’ teen thriller Someone in the Dark as a producer. He also recently wrote a draft of the time-travel adventure Family History at 20th Century Fox, and his screenplay Elevator Men is set up at Summit with Mark Gordon producing.
