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.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 2.48.33 PMA couple contemplates whether or not to break up over the course of one night in Los Angeles as an apocalyptic disaster threatens the possible end of the world at sunrise.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 2.48.33 PMLegendary boxing trainer Cus D’Amato seeks to cement his legacy by mentoring a troubled, teenaged Mike Tyson toward becoming the youngest boxing heavyweight champion of the world.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 2.48.33 PMFollows American heiress and super-spy Virginia Hall, who attempted to break into the ranks of the American Foreign Service in the years before World War II. Rejected because of her gender and a disability, Hall worked during the war for the British intelligence unit SOE. She later joined the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 2.48.33 PMA whistleblower’s harrowing journey into an undercover FBI operation in 1980’s Cook County, Illinois, sending him toe-to-toe with corrupt judges, hustling defense attorneys, and Chicago mobsters; and ultimately resulting in the largest number of convictions of government officials in the history of the United States.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 2.48.33 PMThe remarkable true story of two strangers from two very different worlds who fight to get Anne Frank’s diary published. Otto Frank, Anne’s father, and Barbara Zimmerman, a young editor at Doubleday Press and a fiercely independent woman determined to make her mark on the world and change it for the better.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 2.48.33 PMSet in a society that can create a snapshot of a specific day in time that can be real again for one day, the court uses these snapshots for investigations. When a detective on Snapshot Duty investigates the memory of a call that was never logged, he makes a horrifying discovery.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 2.48.33 PMA man struggles to get home to his family while run-ins with royalty, old friends, and the law all seem to conspire to keep him from succeeding.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 2.48.33 PMAn action adventure based on true events about two 19th century hot air balloonists – a young woman and a young man – who go higher than anyone has ever gone before.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 2.48.33 PMIn this incredible true story of survival, Tami Oldham Ashcraft sails into the heart of a hurricane and embarks on a harrowing 41-day odyssey against impossible odds.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 2.48.33 PMThis is the extraordinary true story of Johanna “Hannie” Schaft, a young woman who dropped out of college to join the Dutch Resistance during WWII, eventually becoming one of their most talented assassins and one of the Nazis’ most wanted enemies.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 2.48.33 PMA BuzzFeed editor has his cell phone stolen and it has made its way to China. A year later, random pictures begin appearing on his photo stream, including a number of pictures of a serious-looking man in front of an orange tree.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 2.48.33 PMFollows the story of Private Adam Winfield, a soldier in Afghanistan who attempted to blow the whistle on members of his platoon who carry out a murderous scheme in the desolate wasteland of Southern Afghanistan.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 2.48.33 PMCenters on Zelda Fitzgerald, the wife of author F. Scott Fitzgerald and his indispensable muse and fiercest competitor. Desperate to define herself through her own art, the film explores the question: Can love exist between creative equals? Born in Montgomery, Alabama, Zelda Fitzgerald was dubbed was hailed as the “first American Flapper.”

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 2.48.33 PMBased on the myth of a Chinese female warrior who disguises herself as a male soldier to take her fahter’s place in the army.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 2.48.33 PMChronicles the true life story of Victorian mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron who formulates an algorithm used by a mechanical device, considered the precursor to the present-day computer.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 2.48.33 PMTrue story of the creation of on of the most famous female comic book superheroes of all time. Details the life of creator Dr. William Moulton Marston, his wife Elizabeth, and their polyamorous relationship with Olive Byrne.