This gets my vote for the May spec script reading group script of the month -- a nice change from Medieval.

Duly noted. Oftentimes, it takes a few weeks for spec scripts to slip onto the Internet. We'll have to see. But The ScriptShadow and I will be posting something soon where people can offer their thoughts on possible scripts for the next round of The ScriptShadow Challenge.

Hmmmm... I for one, am extremely pleased with this news...

I was surfing to see what people were saying about the script, and stumbled across this site. For the record, Michael and I wrote the script (at the time titled "Whales on Ice") almost ten years ago, and it has been sitting on a shelf for a pretty long time. It's based on a wonderful book by Tom Rose about the event. We wrote the screenplay as a satirical indie comedy, which is why it probably didn't sell originally. Two months ago, we took out all the cursing and two sex scenes and overnight it magically became a family movie... not kidding. Warner Bros. scooped it up with no idea of what it once was, only what they thought it could be.

Jack Amiel

I read Whales on Ice/Everybody Loves Whales many many times in my years as a reader at WMA and it was always one of my favorite scripts.