MGM has bought Jim Burnstein and Garrett Schiff's comedy spec "A Quarterback's Tale" for Marc Platt ("Legally Blonde") to produce, reports Variety.
They won the project last week after a bidding war with Columbia Pictures, paying a mid-six-figure sum for the story that revolves around a young sports fan who lands a PR job with the NFL and discovers that his hero, a quarterback, has major flaws on and off the field.