PRISONER OF TREBEKISTAN

An adaptation of Bob Harris’s memoir Prisoner of Trebekistan: A Decade in Jeopardy!

After repeatedly failing the Jeopardy! audition test, a struggling stand-up comedian devises an obsessive — and often hilariously unconventional — system for mastering a seemingly impossible universe of facts. His unlikely journey from perennial reject to elite contestant becomes a funny and poignant exploration of ambition, memory, failure and the transformative power of knowledge.

Daniel Shafer, Tobey Maguire and Mark Ross developed the adaptation for Paramount Vantage with Academy Award-nominated producer Mark Gordon (SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, SPEED) and screenwriter Bill Wheeler GHOST IN THE SHELL).