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: Fresh out of high school, Bobby Stano was signed to the majors, had a beautiful girlfriend, and had everything going for him. After a confrontation with a local gang resulted in an accidental fatality, Bobby’s fortunes changed, and he spent the next 13 years in prison. Upon his release, Bobby seeks redemption, landing a job assisting his former minor league baseball coach, rekindling his old relationship and maybe even getting a second chance to play his way back to the major leagues.

Logline: Kept under wraps, but pitched as a “300” style adventure about Columbus’ discovery of America.

Logline: Story will focus on the first 17 days after the San Jose mine in Chile collapsed and trapped 33 miners underground.

Logline: Story centers on a mysterious group of prisoners held captive in Southern Nevada in the secretive military base Area 51.

Logline: Follows the true story of the lowly and disorganized Midlands soccer team who were accidentally invited to play against a top-league German team.

Logline: The true story of the FBI’s 1980 under-cover sting operation of Congress, dubbed Abscam, to root out corruption which was the brainchild of the world’s greatest con man.

Logline: Story takes place in 1908, and centers on a pair of young lovers on the verge of being separated, a struggle for power among various bureaucracies and a bitter love triangle involving two brothers all coming to a head as the deadliest disaster on American soil, a Category 4 hurricane readies to destroy everything around them.

Logline: Closely parallels the story of Amanda Knox, the U.S. exchange student convicted by an Italian trial jury and sentenced to 26 yers in prison for the brutal murder of her roommate in the medieval Italian town of Perugia.

Logline: Follows the first four days in the life of First Lady Jackie Kennedy after the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy.

Logline: Based on the life of Paul Robeson, a professional athlete, singer, actor, lawyer, and African-American civil rights social activist.

Logline: Story centers on Ed Lucas, a man blinded by an errant line drive while playing baseball at the age of 12, in 1951, who never gave up on his dream, and overcame his handicap to become an award-winning reporter covering the Yankees and the New York baseball scene.

Logline: Story will chronicle 35 years in the life of scribe Carson McCullers, who died in 1967 at age 50 and whose works include novels “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter,” “The Member of the Wedding” and novella “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe.”

Logline: True story of a Spanish school teacher who goes to Nepal on vacation and ends up discovering her life calling of establishing a free school for Nepalese children.

Logline: The story follows the legendary Irish hero, Cuchulainn, and his epic battle to defend his homeland of Ulster.