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‘Lost’ scribe Jack Bender will helm thriller based on teen party game. By Adam Rosenberg J.J. Abrams Photo: Andrew H. Walker/ Getty Images With his Bad Robot production company, J.J. Abrams has tackled a highly successful “Star Trek” reboot, a genre-flipping giant-monster-invades-city movie, an impossible mission and a handful of the most gripping network television shows of the past 10 years. What’s left to tackle? High school party games! Bad Robot is developing a thriller based on “7 Minutes in Heaven,” The Hollywood Reporter reveals. The name refers to a teenage party game in which two randomly selected participants are stuffed in a closet together for seven minutes, presumably spending their time either making out or staring at each other awkwardly. In the movie pitch, which originated with “Lost” writer/director Jack Bender, the two teens emerge from the closet to find that all of their friends are dead! Bender signed a feature deal with Bad Robot earlier in the summer and the “7 Minutes in Heaven” movie will be his to direct. The next step is to find a writer, and Bad Robot is looking for one now. Bender’s experience as a feature director is limited to little more than “Child’s Play 3,” but he’s got a strong background in television as a writer and director on “The Sopranos,” “Carniv