The cliche about pitching a movie is that you describe it as two movies put together-- "It's Titanic meets A Beautiful Mind !"-- or a slightly tweaked version of something people already like -- "it's Gone With the Wind , but with dogs!" This tactic works, but there are times when there are two ideas that simply can't be mashed together and taken seriously. Like "gritty Ghostbusters," for example. And yet, that's the exact description being thrown around for Spectral , a supernatural action project recently picked up by Legendary Pictures. According to THR the company picked up the project from writer Ian Fried, who wrote a treatment and a "rip reel" that, in true pitch form, showed clips from other movies that would give Legendary a sense of what they were buying. I told you that strategy works! The story follows a "modern-day, militaristic and gritty approach to fighting the supernatural," and somehow a...