(“Yesterday we had a pillow fight and gave each other haircuts.”)

Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci wrote Star Trek ($246 million so far), Transformers 2 ($201 mil in five days), and produced The Proposal ($69 mil in two weeks), so you could say they’re having a decent year.  In related news, I bought pillowcases.  Today Variety reports on their next project, producing License to Steal.

Shane Salerno (Armageddon, AVP: R) will pen the script. Project is loosely based on Marc Weingarten’s Salon.com article about the high-end repo business, in which agents travel all the world to reclaim play toys including private jets and speedboats.

I heard Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci settle script disagreements with tickle fights.  True story. From the Salon article:

For the past three decades, Nick Popovich has been one of a secret tribe of big game hunters who specialize in stealing jets from the jungle hideouts of corrupt landowners in Colombia, Mexico and Brazil and swiping go-fast boats from Wall Street titans in Miami and East Hampton. Super repos have been known to hire swat teams, hijack supertankers and fly off with eastern bloc military helicopters. For a cut of the overall value, they’ll repossess anything.

And times have never been better. When lenders opened the sluice gates of easy credit throughout the last decade, high rollers went out and splurged on Gulfstreams and yachts. When the job goes away, the bonuses dry up and the stock market tanks, it’s a long and nasty downward spiral that leads to Popovich’s door.

So basically, he’s a modern-day Robin Hood who steals from the rich and gives to the banks. Topical!  I plan to protest this film by mailing myself a teabag. It won’t really solve anything, but by the time I figure that out, my troubles will have melted away in a flood of soothing chamomile.