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: Based on the friendship between Ernest Hemingway and reporter Denne Bart Petitclerc in Cuba in the 1950s.

Logline: Based on the true story of University of Texas coach Darrell Royal and his special bond with defensive back Freddie Steinmark whose career was cut short when he learned he had a cancerous tumor that took his leg and ended his career.

Logline: A sensitive 18th Century Spanish Captain is coerced into carrying a slave cargo by his bisexual, aristocratic lover whose female consort frees the slaves, leading to mutiny and discovery by an American ship.

Logline: Story of the mysterious torture and murder of a wire service reporter during the Salvadoran civil war whose death leads to the uncovering of the Iran-Contra affair.

Logline: Story of the crew of a cargo plane who try to survive a flight when their cargo, 87 deceased scientists, come back to life in a zombie-like state.

Logline: Twin brothers with opposite personalities are separated at a young age and go on to live drastically different lives, eventually being reunited in an effort to save the company ‘Rocket Cola’ despite their love of the same woman.

Logline: Follows the true story of an English doctor who, after his daughter was killed when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up, becomes a leading force in the hunt to discover the truth behind the terror attack.

Logline: Based on the life experiences of Arielle Holmes, a street kid who met the Safdies on the subway, the auto-biopic revolves about a vagabond couple in New York City battling addiction amidst a manic love affair.

Logline: The true story of film composer Tim Simonec who is left quadriplegic after a surgery and develops a relationship with the woman who visits the person in the bed next to him.

Logline: Story of a bank executive recruited to lure American billionaires to an exclusive Swiss bank, only to be convicted of tax fraud while trying to save one of his biggest clients from the same fate.

Logline: The true story of a Jewish woman who impersonates a man and joins the Prussian army to search for her missing husband but ends up falling in love with another soldier.

Logline: Story of the rumored love affair between married novelist Edith Wharton and a sexually liberated book critic from the London Times which resulted in Wharton losing her virginity at age 40, the inspiration for her novel “The Age of Innocence.”