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: A former special forces operative lives through the events that led up to the 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.

Centers on Project Alpha, a hoax orchestrated by James “The Amazing” Randi and two fake psychics, Steve Shaw (now known as Banachek) and Michael Edwards, who participated in a paranormal research project led by researchers who believed that the pair had legitimate psychic powers and had no idea that they were being duped.

Logline: Centers on the creation of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command pilot program that allowed elite women soldiers on the battlefield with Green Berets and Army Rangers in Afghanistan in 2010. Dubbed CST-2, the unit was made up of a hand-picked group of women from the Army, hat included first Lieutenant Ashley White, who would become the first CST member killed in action.

Logline: Based on a the true story of Billy Milligan, who was the first person to successfully use multiple personality disorder as a defense in a court of law after being arrested for rape and diagnosed with a multiple personality disorder that had 24 manifestations.

Logline: Based on the true story of Joey Ippolito, who, in the early 1980’s, was known as one of the world’s top speedboat racers. However, no one in that South Beach, socialite-crowd knew that he also was running one of the biggest cocaine smuggling operations out of the United States. Pitched as a two-hander for a DiCaprio/Hemsworth type.

Logline: Coming-of-age story set in the high-end salon world that follows a young woman who, with no business experience and the help of her brother, defied everyone’s expectations to create the DryBar franchise.

Logline: Follows the struggles of a father and daughter in a dying town that used to measure its success by a booming industrial economy and the boxscore of its baseball team.

Logline: Based on the life-story of Richard Wershe Jr., who at the age of 14, went undercover as an informant for local and federal law enforcement agencies during the mid-80s and quickly went from being an asset to an issue after being arrested for possession of 17 pounds of cocaine at the age of 17 — and then sentenced to life without parole.

Logline: Based on the life of Ted Patrick, the so-called “father of deprogramming,” who stood trial for his unconventional methods of deprogramming cult members through the use of kidnapping and mental exhaustion.

Logline: As Britain struggles through the darkest hours of World War II, a naval officer, raw from the loss of his ship during the evacuation of Dunkirk, is thrust into the thick of the hunt for the Nazi super-battleship, Bismarck.

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Logline: In 1940, Winston Churchill faces his greatest decision — make a deal with Hitler to end the war and surrender, or to fight on against all odds.

Logline: Set in the 1980s, the story centers on the spiral of Major League pitcher Bill “Spaceman” Lee, a hot-tempered, self-serving madman unable to see himself as anything other than a baseball player.

Logline: Follows the bizarre true story about the legal battle between a man who found a mummified human leg in a grill and the man who’s leg it was, over custody of the leg.

Logline: Centers on the relationship between American art critic James Lord and the legendary Swiss painter Alberto Giacometti. When Lord decides to sit for a portrait by his friend, he is unprepared for the painter’s demanding intensity and the experience tests their relationship to the core.

Logline: A troubled teenager and his older brother reconnect, setting off a powder keg of buried secrets, paranoia and murder.

Logline: A pioneering Jamaican doctress battles prejudice to play a key role in the Crimean War, rivaling Florence Nightingale.

Logline: The true story of Edgar Valdez, a high school football player that became the only U.S. citizen to rise to the level of cartel leader in Mexico. Known as “La Barbie,” he made $130 million in one year moving drugs from Colombia and became increasingly feared and allegedly engaged in filming the violent and brutal executions of his rivals and posting them on the Internet.