NEW ATTACHMENTS
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.
NEW PROJECTS
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 3
rd 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.