Logline: Follows the real life of brilliant MLB and ALB player Moe Berg who went on to work as a spy for the American government during WWII.
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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 the real life of brilliant MLB and ALB player Moe Berg who went on to work as a spy for the American government during WWII.
Set in 1858, the story follows a young Jewish boy in Bologna, Italy who was secretly baptized and taken from his family and raised as a Christian. The story will focus on his parents’ struggle to free their son which later becomes a political battle.
Logline: The story of Marco Polo, the 13th century Italian merchant and explorer known for his legendary travels to China.
Logline: Set in China during the Han dynasty (206-220 AD), Dragon Blade follows Huo An, an official framed and enslaved for a crime he didn’t commit. SHe meets Roman soldier and the pair begin to form an unlikely alliance.
Logline: A woman and her family undergo an exorcism when they appear to be beset by demonic possession.
Logline: After her parents die in a tragic car accident, a young witch moves with her new husband and his mother to a zany island of misfits in an attempt to start over.
Logline: During the war in El Salvador, the biggest manhunt in the history of the Americas occurs when a Salvadorian guerilla kidnaps the Shah of Iran’s son and demands a ransom.
Logline: The true story that chronicles the stories of the dogs rescued from Michael Vick’s dog fighting ring.
Logline: The son of a founding leader in the Palestinian organization, Hamas, becomes a spy for the Israelis.
Logline: The true story of the rescue and redemption of the Jewish people of Ethiopia who were airlifted to Jerusalem by the Israeli air force during the Ethiopian civil war.
Logline: Story centers on Alfred Anaya, a car stereo installer in California who became in demand because of ability to design traps, or secret compartments that often are used to conceal everything from drugs to cash and weapons.
Logline: Story centers on Albert Einstein and Mileva Meric’s blossoming relationship in the late 1890s and the companionship and competitive nature that would spill across professionally and romantically throughout their tumultuous 16-year marriage.
Logline: An “intimist historical tale†set at the end of the Paraguay War, the story follows the bastard son of Rio’s biggest slave trader being sent by his father to Paraguay to find his legitimate half-brother, who has disappeared in battle.
Logline: Pitched as “The Social Network” meets “Risky Business,” project is based on the true story of Sam Eshaghoff, the New York teen who created a lucrative business around taking the SATs for wealthy kids.
Logline: Follows the life of iconic 20th century Russian film director Sergei Eisenstein.
Logline: An insecure young woman takes a job assisting a famous photographer who captures intimate pictures of couples on Polaroid film.
Logline: Based on the true story of Anthony Robles, an man born with one leg who would go on to become an undefeated collegiate wrestling champion.
Logline: Centers on a group of Wall Street traders who walked away from their high paying jobs and banded together to reform the finance industry after becoming frustrated with a loophole giving traders an unfair financial advantage.
Logline: Follows the tortured post-Impressionist artist through troubling interpersonal relationships, his self doubt and his love/hate relationship with his artwork and the hardships of his everyday life.
Logline: Agent Garbo tells the story of a self made secret agent who matched wits with the best minds of the Third Reich… and won.
Logline: Story of amateur archaeologist Edith Pretty and her excavation of a seventh century Saxon ship, the Sutton Hoo, one of Britain’s most famous archaeological finds.
Logline: The true story of British pop songwriter, composer and musician Lionel Bart.
Logline: The true story of largest wave of bank robberies in Sweden’s history, heists pulled by three brothers and their childhood best friend, twentysomethings who went by the name “The Military Gang.”
Logline: Based on the life of San Francisco 49ers linebacker Patrick Willis.
Logline: Tells the tale of the centuries-old, devil-like creature known the world-over as the Krampus – the “Anti-Claus” of Alpine country folklore, infamous for eating naughty children during the season of giving.
Logline: A serial killer tale centering around the Jewish legend of the “36” – a belief that the world needs to maintain 36 righteous individuals in order to exist.
Logline: A single father and his daughter make a promise to read to each other for 100 consecutive nights, eventually extending the deal to include every night from 4th grade through college.
Logline: Based on the true story of the doctors in Apartheid Africa who achieved the first human heart transplant in the world.
Logine: As the lead dancer in the NYC ballet, Tanaquil Le Clercq sees her cut short by polio at age 27.
Logline: Story of Michael Glatze, a young gay activist who had a religious awakening and renounced homosexuality, becoming a fundamentalist Christian.
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