Logline: Based on the friendship between Ernest Hemingway and reporter Denne Bart Petitclerc in Cuba in the 1950s.
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: Follows famed author and satirist Mark Twain between 1850 and 1910 when he was a Mississippi river boat pilot, a California gold prospector, a muckraking journalist, novelist, and public speaker.
Logline: Based on the true story of a family man who goes undercover to take down one of the country’s most powerful mob bosses.
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: Biopic about world heavyweight boxing champion Buster Douglas leading up to his historic defeat over Mike Tyson in 1990.
Logline: Centers on the days leading up to the death of iconic Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.
Logline: Story of a young woman’s terrifying descent into madness as a result of an undiagnosed case of encephalitis.
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: An OkCupid encounter that resulted in an eight country, three-week date with one catch – no luggage allowed.
Logline: Based on the real life and music career of rock and roll icon Elvis Presley, “The King.”
Logline: Follows author J.D. Salinger from his early days trying to establish his career in the early 1940s, finally gaining a foothold with his “Catcher in the Rye” character Holden Caulfield, when he leaves to fight in WWII.
Logline: Based on the true story of Brownie Wise, the woman behind the concept of Tupperware parties which landed her on the cover of Business Week.
Logline: Based on a true story, a shipwrecked Spaniard is enslaved by a Mayan tribe, but then embraces their culture and helps defend them against Spanish conquistadors.
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: Based on the true story of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, the highest ranking person of color to ever serve in any European army and father of author Alexandre Dumas.
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: The true story of Jeff Bauman, a survivor of the Boston Marathon bombings.
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: The story of Roo — the mixed breed stray dog who won the Westminster Dog Show’s first-ever agility competition.
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: Based on the true story of Bob Marley and the Wallers and the hardships they endure on their way to success.
Logline: The story chronicles a true-life Coast Guard rescue operation against the most impossible odds.
Logline: Story of mobster David Berman and his determination to be sent to Europe to fight the Nazis.
Logline: Follows an American girl who sets out to help the allied forces in World War II.
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: Story of a British man who champions a wrongfully-convicted death row inmate, who also happens to be a talented artist.
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.”