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: The tragic and epic life of Mary Shelley, the writer who conceived the character of Frankenstein, lost her husband and two of their three children to tragedy, and died of a brain tumor at the age of fifty-three.

Logline: Story centers on a suburban dad who, after discovering that a fugitive couple has killed their landlord and kidnapped their two young daughters from foster care, decides to single handedly bring them to justice.

Logline: Follows the true story of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who designed more than 1,000 projects, authored 20 books and many articles, and was a popular lecturer in the United States and in Europe. His colorful personal life often made headlines, most notably for the 1914 fire and murders at his Taliesin studio.

Logline: Follows the true story of Lynn Kelley, a woman who, after losing her job, sets aside her dreams to return to her small hometown in southern Ohio. There she realizes her true passion, when as a middle-school gym teacher she creates a synchronized jump-rope team that inspires an entire town.

Logline: Follows the true story of David Tomkins, who went from being Britain’s most successful safecracker to becoming an Angolan demolitions expert in a notorious mercenary army, and his involvement in “The Massacre of Maquela” in 1976.

Logline: Follows the true story of three teens who were falsely accused and imprisoned for 18 years after they allegedly killed three children in 1993 as part of a satanic ritual.

Logline: Story centers on Martin Luther King’s life while trying to organize the city’s sanitation workers in spring of 1968, just before his murder on April 4 of that year.

Logline: Follows the true story of 22 year old arms dealer Efraim Diveroli, whose company, AEY Inc., landed $300 million in Pentagon contracts to become the main supplier of munitions to Afghanistan’s army and police forces, only to end up delivering decomposing, low quality weapons.

Logline: Follows the true story of Charles Manson as seen through the eyes of the girls who became his most loyal followers.

Logline: Based on the true story of one man who, after recovering from alcoholism, wants to do right by those that helped him, but receiving no help from the government, decides to start his own foundation to help thousands of Texas students go to college.

Logline: Follows a hard-drinking college student, who suffers from recurring nightmares and hallucinations, culminating in the possible murder of her ex-fling, who may or may not have assaulted her two years ago.

Logline: The story of a successful businessman, now a Skid Row bum, who finds a passage through despair to an unexpected triumph in a New York court.