MGM gets 'Zookeeper'

April 22, 2008 MGM, with a strong push from new worldwide motion picture group head Mary Parent, has beaten out several suitors, including Disney and DreamWorks, to buy the duo's script about talking animals. The scribes, who have been working steadily on assignments since selling their first spec, "National Security," in 2002, went out with a pitch titled "Zookeeper" in the fall. Todd Garner, who came up with the idea for the project and initially brought it to the scribes' agent at ICM, is producing via his Broken Road Prods.

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