EXCLUSIVE: Buzzy emerging screenwriter Morgan Lehmann has sold the pitch for an untitled WAGs comedy to Amazon MGM Studios ‘ United Artists and Scott Stuber , Deadline has learned.

While plot details are being kept under wraps, the pitch is being described as a female-driven sports comedy in the vein of Miss Congeniality . The term “WAGs” refers to the wives and girlfriends of celebrities, including high-profile athletes.

The spec sale is Lehmann’s second of the year following a six-way bidding war for her first feature, involving erotic teen fan fiction, which was snapped up by A24 with Emma Stone’s Fruit Tree aboard to produce.

Lehmann is writing the script. Annie McCreery brought the pitch into UA, whose Stuber and Nick Nesbitt will produce.

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