Lionsgate lands ‘the spoils’; malcolm d. Lee to produce, roshan sethi & hayley schore to script

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has acquired action comedy _The Spoils_, a pitch for Malcolm D. Lee to produce through Blackmaled Productions. The screenplay will be written by Roshan Sethi and Hayley

Schore. The plot revolves around a group of disparate immigrants who realize the London Museum holds their countries’ most prized possessions. They plan an elaborate heist to recover the

stolen artifacts and return them to their rightful homes. Both Sethi and Schore wrote_ The Resident_ for Fox and _Code Black_ for TBS. Schore also wrote _The Black Box_ for ABC. The scribes

recently were also tapped by Universal/Working Title and Chadwick Boseman to write the true story of astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi, based on his upcoming autobiography. Sethi and Schore had

two scripts on the Black List in 2017 and currently have several feature films in development — including the Rosalind Franklin drama _Exposure_ and _Call Jane_, which is set in the pre-_Roe

v Wade_ abortion rights movement. They are developing a limited series on astronaut Sally Ride for Sony/USA and a thriller series for TriStar based on the novel _The Forgotten Girl_.

Blackmaled executive Adam Haiken also will oversee the project on behalf for Lee and Lionsgate executives James Myers and Aaron Edmonds will oversee for the studio. WATCH ON DEADLINE

Projects that Blackmaled has percolating include _I Almost Forgot About You_, an adaptation of the Terry McMillan novel for Universal that will star Viola Davis, as well as two Uni projects

— _Double Dutch_ and _Real Talk_ — and _Rock the Bells_ for Fox. Lee is repped by Paradigm and Del, Shaw, Moonves; Sethi and Schore are repped by LIT Entertainment and The Nord Group.