Michael Montemayor, the rising screenwriter with a growing social media following, has signed with CAA.
The signing comes in the wake of Montemayor selling Court Date, an original feature pitch, to Netflix, earlier in April. Berlanti/Schechter Films, the feature banner run by prolific TV mavens Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter, is producing.
Montemayor is currently working on Disney’s live-action remake of Tangled, which Michael Gracey is directing and is due to go into production later this spring. Previously, he wrote Stepsisters, a live-action re-imagining of Cinderella focused on her two step-siblings, which attracted Akiva Schaffer as a director.
Montemayor began his career as a writer’s assistant to Dana Fox, the veteran rom-com scribe who most recently penned the Wicked movies, while she worked on Cruella for Disney and The Lost City for Paramount.
In addition to his film work, the scribe produces social content that has amassed over 40 million views across platforms, with a voice that is focused on celebrating the LGBTQ+ community.
He continues to be repped by Kaplan/Perrone, Kim Stenton at Myman Greenspan and BK PR.
