Articles, Books & Comics

A segmented selection of the BASED ON Selections from the IN DEVELOPMENT projects. This hub covers all In Development projects that are based on Articles, books, comics, and any other form of literature.

Logline: Story centers on a boy who, after going through an early growth spurt, and often being mistaken as an adult, decides to pose as his best friend’s father in order to snag a seat on an experimental spaceship ride. As luck would have it, the journey goes awry and it’s down to the imagination of a boy who needs to save the adult crew.

Logline: Pitched as “The Italian Job” meets “Ocean’s Eleven,” set in Antwerp, Belgium in early 2003, a small group of Italian thieves miraculously circumvents ten layers of security to access a vault beneath the Antwerp Diamond Center and make off with a purported $100 million in jewels.

Logline: Story centers on a vampire captured by the U.S. Army just after the Civil War who is forced to swear an oath to protect the presidency in the Secret Service for the rest of his life, and his new human handler who finds himself embroiled in a plot involving a monstrous new form of biological weapon with a connection to the White House.

Logline: Set in a dirt-poor mining settlement in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the story centers on a lively 12-year-old living on a pittance with her wheelchair-confined father, and four siblings, who scrap together money for her to catch the films at the local cinema, so that she can recounts what she sees to all of them.

Logline: Dr. Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist in London, is approached by a mysterious sheikh about an outlandish plan to introduce the sport of salmon fishing into the desert in Yemen. The Sheikh’s absurd vision of bringing faith and hope to his people fails to resonate with the faithless, unhappy Brit. However, after initially refusing the proposal, Dr. Jones is swayed by the British government, the Sheikh and the Sheikh’s glamourous real estate rep Harriet and into accepting the job. The result is a ridiculous look at the dysfunction of government bureaucracy and the importance of faith in the face of impossiblity.

Logline: Fresh out of prison, Charlie Rankin sets out to exact revenge on two people who wronged him in the past. However, when things don’t go as planned, Charlie seeks refuge with a porn actress named Florence Jane, all the while struggling to contain the violent urges inside of him.

Logline: Story revolves around five patrons who are barricaded in a bar called Tony’s for 3 days while Wall Street collapses. The drunks continue to drink, but things get intense when the liquor supply begins to dwindle. Power struggles ensue, rationing begins and the alcoholics descend into their own chaos as the violence escalates outside.

Logline: Story is set in a time in which humans have left Earth and sees Quatermain (the hero of “King’s Solomon’s Mines) return to the planet from a sojourn in space, embarking on another “King Solomon’s Mines”-style adventure but on a planetwide scale.