NEW ATTACHMENTS
The Nice Guys
Logline: A private detective and a team of beefcakes search for a missing woman and find a underground of corruption.
Studio/Distributor:
Warner Bros.
Production Company: Silver Pictures
Producer: Joel Silver
Cast:
Ryan Gosling, Russell Crowe
Writers: Shane Black, Anthony Bagarozzi
Director: Shane Black
SSN Insight: Project re-teams Shane Black with Silver Pictures since the
Lethal Weapon franchise.
Locke & Key
Logline: Three children find themselves the custodians of Keyhouse, a New England mansion. Within the house are fantastic doors that transform all who walk through them. The mansion is also home to a hate-filled creature that will not rest until it forces the kids to open the most terrible door of all.
Studio/Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Companies: K/O Paper Products, IDW Publishing
Producers: Ted Adams, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Bobby Cohen
Writer:
Albert Torres
Details: Based on the graphic novel Locke & Key, written by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez and published by IDW Publishing on February 20, 2008.
SSN Insight: Project reunites Albert Torres with Universal since 2004’s
Serenity.
Coronado High
Logline: The true story of how a group of teenagers and their teacher begin to smuggle drugs and create an empire.
Studio/Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Production Companies: Smokehouse Pictures, David Klawans Productions
Producers: George Clooney, Grant Heslov, David Klawans
Writer:
Debora Cahn
Details: Based on the article written by Joshua Bearman and published in
Wired magazine.
SSN Insight: Project is based on an article by Joshua Bearman, the same journalist whose article for Wired became the basis for the 2012 Oscar-winning movie
Argo, which George Clooney and Heslov produced.
Power Rangers
Logline: A group of teenagers who have been chosen to protect the world from aliens do it by morphing into superheroes and piloting giant robots.
Studio/Distributor: Lionsgate
Production Companies:
Allison Shearmur Productions, Saban Brands LLC
Producers:
Haim Saban,
Brian Casentini, Allison Shearmur, Roberto Orci (Executive Producer)
Writers:
Ashley Miller, Zach Stentz
Details: Based on the live-action TV series "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" which originally aired on Fox Kids from August 28, 1993 through November 27, 1995. The franchise has been in production ever since with the series re-named each year.
SSN Insight: Project reunites writing team of Miller and Stentz with Orci since
Fringe, the cult TV show Orci created with Alex Kurtzman.
NEW PROJECTS
Forever, Interrupted
Logline: After a young woman’s brief marriage ends when her husband dies, she copes by forming a relationship with her mother…who doesn’t know of her existence.
Production Companies: Gidden Media, Good Universe
Producers: Amy Baer, Dakota Johnson (Executive Producer), Nathan Kahane (Executive Producer), Joe Drake (Executive Producer), John Middleton (Executive Producer), Roy Lee (Executive Producer)
Cast: Dakota Johnson
Details: Based on the novel
Forever, Interrupted, written by Taylor Jenkins Reid and published by Washington Square Press in 2013.
SSN Insight: Project is based on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s debut novel and reunites producer Amy Baer with Good Universe since
Last Vegas.
Stronger
Logline: The true story of Jeff Bauman, who after losing his legs in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, was an integral part of helping police to locate the suspects
Studio/Distributor: Lionsgate
Production Company: Mandeville Films/TV
Producers: Todd Lieberman, David Hoberman, Scott Silver, Peter McGuigan (Executive Producer)
Writer: John Pollono
Details: Based on the book
Stronger, written by Jeff Bauman and Bret Whitter and published by Grand Central Publishing in April, 2014.
SSN Insight: Project reunites producers Todd Lieberman and David Hoberman with Scott Silver, who wrote
The Fighter. Project also marks the screenplay writing debut of John Pollono.