About the relationship between a man and his dachshund Lily using an octopus that attaches to Lily to grapple with ideas about illness, death and holding on (and letting go) to the pets we love.
Jake Gyllenhaal is in the midst of talks to join Benedict Cumberbatch in The Weinstein Company’s Thomas Edison period drama The Current War, while Me and Earl and the Dying Girl helmer Alfonso Gomez-Rejon is in talks to direct.
Set in the future, a boy suspects that the emotionless, crime free, seemingly perfect world in which he lives may not be as utopian as it appears. In this perfect world where there is no conflict, racism or sickness, every member of this society has a specific role, and 12-year-old Jonas is selected to be the Receiver of Memories. The Giver is an old man who teaches the young boy how to use his gift, and slowly Jonas uncovers the truth behind his world’s past. He discovers that many years earlier his forefathers gave up humanity in order to have a stable society.
Set in the future, a boy suspects that the emotionless, crime free, seemingly perfect world in which he lives may not be as utopian as it appears. In this perfect world where there is no conflict, racism or sickness, every member of this society has a specific role, and 12-year-old Jonas is selected to be the Receiver of Memories. The Giver is an old man who teaches the young boy how to use his gift, and slowly Jonas uncovers the truth behind his world’s past. He discovers that many years earlier his forefathers gave up humanity in order to have a stable society.
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2011 “Black List” scribe to pen children’s book adaptation.
Logline: A young boy grows smarter when he starts eating books, but he soon becomes sick from eating too much and all the knowledge is jumbled up jeopardizing his quest to become the most intelligent boy.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Chronicles the battle between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse as they fight over one of mankind’s greatest creations – electricity.
Logline: A man with split personalities struggles to keep his murderous alter ego under control while trying to elude a covert organization that may want to use Mr. Hyde for their own nefarious purposes.
Logline: Chronicles the battle between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse as they fight over one of mankind’s greatest creations – electricity.
Logline: Set in the future, a boy suspects that the emotionless, crime free, seemingly perfect world in which he lives may not be as utopian as it appears. In this perfect world where there is no conflict, racism or sickness, every member of this society has a specific role, and 12-year-old Jonas is selected to be the Receiver of Memories. The Giver is an old man who teaches the young boy how to use his gift, and slowly Jonas uncovers the truth behind his world’s past. He discovers that many years earlier his forefathers gave up humanity in order to have a stable society.
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