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

Logline: Follows the story and rise of Al Capone to the head of the Chicago criminal underworld, and the events in 1924 leading up to his government takeover of Cicero, Illinois.

Logline: Story centers on a man who, after living with polio for years, decides to make arrangements with a sex surrogate to finally lose his virginity.

Logline: Based on a true story of a South African weightlifter who overcame several personal struggles, and the looming cloud of apartheid to compete, and win the gold medal at the 1966 Olympics.

Logline: The true story of Hua Mulan, a legendary young female who disguises herself as a man in order to fight alongside them as a soldier in the army.

Logline: The true story of billionaire Rueben Sturman who made his fortune from selling imported pornography in the 1950s.

Logline: The true story of two Baltimore personal injury lawyers in the 1980’s who became famous and wealthy during the boom of legal advertising.

Logline: The official biopic of John DeLorean, the entrepreneur who launched his own auto company, only to watch it fall apart after a string of financial, personal, and legal difficulties.

Logline: Story of Tupac Shaukr’s rise to fame in the late 80s and early 90s, his violent music themes, his rivalry with other rappers and the feud between hip-hop artists on both coasts, up until his untimely death in 1996.

Logline: In the year 2058, the son of wealthy businessman, who is falsely accused of murder, must join a band of thieves in order to clear his name and stop the madman who killed his father.

Logline: A Viking who sets out to find a missing girl, ends up the key piece in the fight for all humanity in a battle long prophesied to bring forth the end of the world.

Logline: Based on the true story of an American stockbroker, living a comfortable life in Brazil, working for one of the country’s most feared criminals, who would find his life turned upside down when his criminal client now demands he weds his daughter.

Logline: Centers on the 3-day epic, and bloody “Battle of Midway,” considered to be the battle that would become the turning point for WW II in the Pacific.

Logline: A comedy about factory workers who end up selling their sperm to a sperm bank to fund their retaliation when they lose their jobs at the state-owned car factory.

Logline: Charts the escapades of the seductive spy, Mata Hari, whose attraction to powerful men lead to her demise.

Logline: As the rest of America celebrates the Fourth of July, two unlikely, interconnected couples cross paths in their search for companionship and transcendence.

Logline: Story centers on an American anthropologist who is thrust Into the politically unstable, and uranium-rich West African wastes of the nomadic Taureg tribes, when he must travel back to the Sahara to help a former research subject who has been accused of a terrorist attack.

Logline: Story follows six friends trapped in a house after a series of strange and catastrophic events devastate Los Angeles. As the world unravels outside, dwindling supplies and cabin fever threaten to tear apart the friendships inside. Eventually, they are forced to leave the house, facing their fate and the true meaning of friendship and redemption.

Logline: Follows the true story of kidnapped victim Natascha Kampusch, who was held captive in a basement cell and managed to escape after 8 years.