Story & True Events

A segmented selection of the BASED ON Selections from the IN DEVELOPMENT projects. This hub covers all In Development projects that are based on a story, true story, life rights, real events and biopics.

Logline: Story of the rumored love affair between married novelist Edith Wharton and a sexually liberated book critic from the London Times which resulted in Wharton losing her virginity at age 40, the inspiration for her novel “The Age of Innocence.”

Logline: Set in China during the Han dynasty (206-220 AD), Dragon Blade follows Huo An, an official framed and enslaved for a crime he didn’t commit. SHe meets Roman soldier and the pair begin to form an unlikely alliance.

Logline: During the war in El Salvador, the biggest manhunt in the history of the Americas occurs when a Salvadorian guerilla kidnaps the Shah of Iran’s son and demands a ransom.

Logline: Story centers on Albert Einstein and Mileva Meric’s blossoming relationship in the late 1890s and the companionship and competitive nature that would spill across professionally and romantically throughout their tumultuous 16-year marriage.

Logline: An “intimist historical tale” set at the end of the Paraguay War, the story follows the bastard son of Rio’s biggest slave trader being sent by his father to Paraguay to find his legitimate half-brother, who has disappeared in battle.

Logline: Pitched as “The Social Network” meets “Risky Business,” project is based on the true story of Sam Eshaghoff, the New York teen who created a lucrative business around taking the SATs for wealthy kids.

Logline: Tells the tale of the centuries-old, devil-like creature known the world-over as the Krampus – the “Anti-Claus” of Alpine country folklore, infamous for eating naughty children during the season of giving.

Logline: A serial killer tale centering around the Jewish legend of the “36” – a belief that the world needs to maintain 36 righteous individuals in order to exist.