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: Follows the true story of Estela Barnes de Carlotto and her struggle to trace children born to those killed by the Argentine military in the 1970s.

Logline: Follows the true story of Sam Kinison’s rise as the son of a preacher to be one of the most cutting-edge and significant comedians of his era.

Logline: Story revolves around a police force battling drugs and prostitution in downtown Seville before the 1992 International Expo.

Logline: Follows the true story of Manchester United’s Busby Babes, who were the youngest team to win the English soccer league before eight players died in the Munich air crash of 1958.

Logline: Follows the true story of Capt. Paul Watson’s early days at Greenpeace and his creation of the controversial Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an organization that wages dangerous ocean battles against illegal whaling vessels.

Logline: Centers on a young student who is brutally raped and flees to London, where she begins to murder men under the alter ego of Cleopatra Brimstone.

Logline: Pitched as a “Titanic”-like historical tragedy and love story revolving around one of the biggest disasters in American history — the Great Chicago Fire.

Logline: Based on the true story of Britain’s Lady Hester Stanhope, a woman who, after her uncle’s death, decided to adventure across the Middle East, leading treasure-hunting expeditions and adventures, and becoming known as ‘Queen Hester’ in a time and a land where women were not even allowed to look a man in the eyes.

Logline: A businessman named Basil and his chauffeur, Nicky, drive in to the heart of the Rocky mountains in the midst of perilous weather conditions. When the journey becomes potentially fatal, Basil must decide whether he’s prepared to sacrifice his own life for the life of another.

Logline: Centers on Antonino “Joe Batters” Accardo, better known as “Big Tuna”, as he rose from small-time hoodlum to the head of the Chicago organized crime from 1943 until 1972.

Logline: True story centers on H.H. Holmes (born Herman Webster Mudgett) a serial killer, who rose to fame (shortly after Jack the Ripper) in 1893 chicago, when he built a new hotel to capitalize on the upcoming World’s fair, and he manipulated the glitz and glamour of the looming event to seduce, and capture his prey by luring them to his hotel, where he would go on to murder somewhere between 27 and 200 people before his end.

Logline: Follows the true story of Bo “Bosse” Hogberg, a boxer from the working class neighborhood of Gothenburg, Sweden, who fought through 14 rounds with a broken jaw against Frenchman Yolande Leveque.

Logline: Follows the true story of James Burns as he attempts to break the cycle that put his teenage years in street gangs and his adult life in a maximum security prison.