Logline: Based on the true story of the German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl’s movie “Tiefland”, which used prisoners at the Marzahn Concentration Camp as actors.
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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: Based on the true story of the German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl’s movie “Tiefland”, which used prisoners at the Marzahn Concentration Camp as actors.
Logline: The true story of a woman who is sued by the most notorious Holocaust denier, which puts the onus on her to prove the Holocaust actually happened.
Logline: The true story of the friendship formed between a young girl and her dying mother and their African-American cook in New Orleans.
Logline: Chronicles the life of eccentric entrepreneur John McAfee from his childhood to present day.
Logline: Story will chronicle the rise and fall of Lance Armstrong.
Logline: A documentary filmmaking duo is assigned to cover a reenactment of JFK’s shooting death which aims to prove that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. But as the lead-up to the reenactment plays out, the pair find that they aren’t fully certain what to believe.
Logline: Kept under wraps but will tell the story of Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno.
Logline: Story takes place in 1915, and revolves around Germany sending its secret service to America to wage a secret war to stop them from helping the Allies.
Logline: Chronicles the story of music producer James William Guercio and his famed recording studio, Caribou Records, which was located in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado.
Logline: Chronicles the life and times of famed French designer Yves Saint Laurent, starting with his meeting with Pierre Berge, his long term business partner.
Logline: Chronicles the ups and downs of eccentric entrepreneur, John McAfee, during his time in retirement when he is accused of murder and goes on the run.
Logline: The film serves as a response to Ben Affleck’s “Argo”, showing the 1979 hostage crisis from an Iranian point of view.
Logline: Kept under wraps but will be a science fiction retelling of the “Icarus” tale.
Logline: A detective schemes to seek vengeance on the French governor who killed his mother.
Logline: The adventure of legendary entrepreneur and explorer, Marco Polo.
Logline: The true story of Willie Francis, a black teen who in 1946 was sent to the electric chair and survived.
Logline: Based on a true story, a promising young law student fights an oppressive legal system and growing public scrutiny when his routine traffic stop snowballs into shocking criminal charges, imprisonment, daring escapes, and ultimately acting as his own attorney in a nationally televised murder trial.
Logline: Follows Matt Ocre and the leader of his platoon, Sergeant Baker, as they both strive to protect Baqubah, a violent and dangerous farming village.
Logline: During the Watergate scandal, a young Hillary Rodham is chosen for a committee to impeach Richard Nixon, whose responsibilities she must juggle with her relationship with her former boyfriend and future husband, Bill Clinton.
Logline: Chronicles the troubled early years of writer Charles Bukowski, ranging from his abusive father and acne-scarred face to his early dabbles into alcoholism.
Logline: A young woman discovers that the wild stories her father told her as a kid about himself were lies and that he’s actually a con man.
Logline: Chronicles the life of Kit Lambert, the famed and troubled manager of the rock band, The Who.
Logline: Tells the story of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis through the perspective of multiple involved parties.
Logline: Kept under wraps but will enter on the Terracotta warrior sculptures in China.
Logline: Arminius, a young German warrior, unites and leads his countrymen in a pivotal battle against the Romans.
Logline: A detective risks his life and career to bring down the Boston Strangler, a notorious serial killer who preyed on women.
Logline: The true story of Georges-Victor Massau, head of the Homicide Squad in Nazi-controlled France who searched for a serial killer who claimed over 150 victims, many of them Jews who he killed after promising to help them escape the Nazis.
Logline: Follows the trial of Bradley Manning, a United States soldier accused of stealing government secrets and releasing them to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Logline: Story will explore the complex relationship between American psychiatrist Dr. Douglas M. Kelley and Nazi war criminal and Hitler’s right-hand man Hermann Goering.
Logline: Story will aim to tell the whole Anne Frank story, including the before and after. Details will be based on extensive historical documentation from the family but not her famous diary.
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