Columbia Pictures has picked up the comedy pitch "Prizonaz of War" from writers Robert LoCash and Nick Creature in a deal worth low- against high-six figures, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
LoCash and Creature will now write the script, which follows four hapless street criminals who escape from a chain gang by hopping into an Army truck and wind up in Afghanistan.
The writers are developing an animated series for MTV called "Angry Ed."
LoCash, additionally repped by Allan Hergott, has written screenplays for such films as "CB4," "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult," "BASEketball" and "A Fate Totally Worse Than Death."