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Film Development For 8/28/14: Screenwriter David Weil Marks Third Feature Sale With ‘Moonfall’

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Chaos Walking Logline: In a dystopian future, a war has wiped out all women and a virus has created the Noise, which allows for everyone's thoughts to be heard at all times. Studio/Distributor: Lionsgate Production Companies: Quadrant Pictures, Allison Shearmur Productions, ImageMovers Producers:  Doug Davison, Allison Shearmur, Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke Writers: Jamie Linden (current draft), Charlie Kaufman (previous adaptation) Director: Robert Zemeckis Details: Based on the young adult novel The Knife of Never Letting Go, written by Patrick Ness and published by Candlewick on September 9, 2008.  Source material is the first of the novels in the "Chaos Walking" trilogy. The second, The Ask and the Answer, was published on September 8, 2009. The third, Monsters of Men, was published on September 28, 2010 and Lionsgate has purchased feature rights to all three novels in the Chaos Walking trilogy SSN Insight: Project reunites Linden with Lionsgate since his adaptation of Noggin’. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Logline: 70 years before Harry Potter’s birth, Newton Artemis Fido Scamander is commissioned to write a reference guide to magical beasts, which would become a Hogwart’s textbook. Studio/Distributor: Warner Bros. Writer:  J.K. Rowling Details: Based on the novel Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, by J.K. Rowling; published by Arthur A. Levine June 2001 .  SSN Insight: Project marks the screenwriting debut for author J.K. Rowling.

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Second Sunrise Logline: A Navajo vampire works with a no-nonsense FBI agent to stop a crazed Nazi and some shapeshifters. Production Companies:  The Romero Co., Red Nation Films Producers: Joanelle Nadine Romero, Rosemary Parks Cast: Eddie Spears, Sage Galesi, Balthazar Getty, A. Martinez Writer:  Carolyn Dunn (adaptation), E.C. Galesi (adaptation) Director: Joanelle Nadine Romero Details: Based on Second Sunrise, the first in the Lee Nez series of novels written by David and Aimee Thurlo and published by Forge in 2002.  SSN Insight: Project is being developed as a franchise starter. Untitled (Celebrity Death Pool Project) Logline: A struggling nightclub owner decides to pay off his huge debt to a loan shark by entering a celebrity death pool and trying to kill David Hasselhoff. Production Companies: World Wrestling Entertainment, Hyde Park Entertainment, Image Nation Abu Dhabi, Lotus Pictures Producers: Ashok Amritraj, David Hasselhoff, Michele Berk, Patrick Hughes, Warren Zide, Eric Gardner (Executive Producer) Cast: Ken Jeong, David Hasselhoff Director: Darren Grant  SSN Insight: Project reunites WWE & Hyde Park (The Fall Guy and 2004’s Walking Tall). Moonfall Logline: An FBI agent is sent on a mission to a colony on the moon to investigate the first death there. Production Company: AUDAX Films Producers:  Andrew Kortschak, Walter Kortschak Writer:  David Weil SSN Insight: Project marks the 3rd feature film sale for writer David Weil. Bathing Flo Logline: Based on a true story, two friends make a deal that one will move in with and take care of the other's elderly mother. Production Companies: Tagline Pictures, Thruline Entertainment Producers:  Danny Sherman, Lauren Lake, Erica Steinberg Cast: Ellen Burstyn Writers: Danny Sherman, Lauren Lake, Daniel Brocklehurst Director: Ellen Burstyn SSN Insight: Project marks the directorial debut for Ellen Burstyn.

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