FIlm Development For 5/29/14: Morgan Freeman To Star In ‘Beautiful Jim Key’ Feature Adaptation

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NEW ATTACHMENTS

You Shall Know Our Velocity! Logline: A man feels guilty about collecting insurance money on a car accident that killed his best friend, so travels with another friend to scatter his dead friend's ashes and give the money to needy people. Production Companies:  Process Media, Benaroya Pictures Producers:  Tim Perell, Michael Benaroya, Bill Mulroy (Executive Producer), Howard Gertler (Co-Producer) Cast: Daniel Radcliffe Writer:  Wells Tower Director: Peter Sollett Details: Based on the novel You Shall Know Our Velocity!, written by Dave Eggers and published by McSweeney's in September 2002. SSN Insight: Project reunites Daniel Radcliffe with producer Michael Benaroya for the first time since 2013’s Kill Your Darlings. The Happy Prince Logline: Oscar Wilde reflects on his tumultuous life in his final days. Production Companies: Cine Plus, Bavaria Pictures, Robert Fox Ltd., Cine-@, BBC Films, Lionsgate UK, Raindog Films Producers:  Robert Fox, Matthias Esche, Colin Firth, Ged Doherty, Philipp Kreuzer, Frank Evers, Philippe Carcassonne, Jorg Schulze Cast: Hugh Dancy, Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinson, Edward Fox Writer:  Rupert Everett Director: Rupert Everett  SSN Insight: Project marks the directorial debut of Rupert Everett. Hello, My Name is Doris Logline: After an isolated woman in her 60s goes to a self-help seminar, she’s motivated to pursue a romantic relationship with a younger man and ends up in the local hipster scene. Production Companies: Red Crown Productions, Haven Entertainment Producers:  Jordana Mollick, Kevin Mann, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Riva Marker, Daniel Crown (Executive Producer) Cast: Sally Field, Beth Behrs, Jack Antonoff, Max Greenfield Writers: Michael Showalter, Laura Terruso Director: Michael Showalter SSN Insight: Project marks the second collaboration between Red Crown Productions and Haven Entertainment. The first was Life Partners.

NEW PROJECTS

Beautiful Jim Key Logline: William Key used kindness to train his horse Beautiful Jim who learned to read, spell and do math, and energized the animal welfare movement around the world. Production Companies:  Mark Gordon Company, Revelations Entertainment Producers: Mark Gordon, Morgan Freeman Cast: Morgan Freeman Writer: Robert Rodat Director: Robert Rodat Details: Based on the book Beautiful Jim Key, written by Mim Eichler Rivas and published by Morrow in 2005.  SSN Insight: Project is the directorial debut for writer Robert Rodat. Gerald’s Game Logline: A woman who accidentally kills her husband while handcuffed to a bed as part of a bondage game must fight her inner demons. Production Company:  Intrepid Pictures Producer: Trevor Macy Writers: Mike Flanagan (adaptation), Jeff Howard (adaptation) Director: Mike Flanagan Details: Based on the novel Gerald's Game, written by Stephen King and published by Viking on September 1, 1992  SSN Insight: Project is the 4^th collaboration between Intrepid Pictures and Mike Flanagan. Love Letters to the Dead Logline: When her English teacher gives a grieving high school student the assignment of writing to a dead person, she expands the exercise and begins writing to several departed confidants. Studio/Distributor: Fox2000 Production Company:  Temple Hill Entertainment Producers: Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen Writer:  Ava Dellaira (adaptation) Details: Based on the novel Love Letters to the Dead, written by Ava Dellaira and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers in April, 2014. SSN Insight: Project is based on screenwriter’s debut novel and she is also writing the adaptation.