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TV & Theater
A segmented selection of the BASED ON Selections from the IN DEVELOPMENT projects. This hub covers all In Development projects that are based on pre-existing Television series or projects, digital projects such as Youtube series, as well as performance arts and theater projects.
The story centers around a successful business woman named Merlyn who is more in love with weddings than she is with marriage.
Examines the strange and distrubing forms love can take and asks how you live with a monster that is your own flesh and blood.
Depicts how Galileo, with his newly discovered telescope, tries to convince the 17th century Pope that, contrary to the thinking of the Roman Catholic Church, the Earth was not the center of the universe, but revolved around the Sun.
Logline kept under wraps, but it will be based on the successful Broadway musical, which follows a group of cats called “Jellicles” who decide will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to live a new life.
A conflicted Air Force pilot is put in charge of operating an unmanned drone.
A modern update of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale, it centers on a man with split personalities who struggles to keep his murderous alter ego under control.
Reimagining of Hamlet through the eyes of its doomed heroine. Based on the award-winning novel by Lisa Klein. Set in the 14th century but spoken in a contemporary voice, Ophelia is put center stage.
Logline kept under wraps, but the movie will be based on the popular sitcom from the ’70s and ’80s.
A boarding school guidance counselor recovering from a panic attack at home and her shunned equestrian daughter deal with mysterious eyes watching them in their suburban home.
While a famous screenwriter comes to terms with his impending death, he attempts reconcile with his estranged son and tries to become less of a burden to his wife by hiring a mysterious stranger to help him die a painless death.
Based on the classic stage musical by Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil. Follows American G.I. Chris and Vietnamese bargirl Kim as they fall desperately in love, but are abruptly separated when Chris returns to America.
Set in the late 17th century England, the project centers on the real-life heroine’s transformation from her roots in a Coal Yard Alley bawdyhouse, to in-theater orange-seller, and ultimately one of the most famous actresses of the restoration era.
Logline kept under wraps, but based on the award winning play by August Wilson.
An update of the classic Looney Tunes cartoon featuring a savvy Mexican mouse who can outsmart and outrun his rivals.
Set in the trenches over four days in 1918, the story follows a group of soldiers as they prepare for an enemy attack with new recruit Raleigh joining the company commanded by 20-year-old Captain Stanhope, his former childhood friend and hero.
The Valorians and Rulons, two warring species, go back in time to prehistoric Earth and wage war with armies of dinosaurs.
Story centers around the world’s greatest secret agent–an agent so secret that his codename has a codename–and who just so happens to be a mouse living underneath MI6 headquarters.
A blacks-only cafe and its patrons are tested to the limits one night.
Based on the 1970s TV show, three skilled female detectives take jobs from the mysterious man, known only through a speaker phone, Charlie.
Kept under wraps but pitched as an Avengers/Space Jam/Wreck It Ralph-esque crossover film for all the early 1990s Nicktoons.
Centers on an aging widow who implements a system that allows her to spend time with holographic versions of her deceased loved ones.
Loosely based on the NBC series of the same name, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE is about an agent of MI-6 who reevaluates his life after learning that he will soon die.
Based on the play by Tarrell McCraney, two young men navigate the Miami drug war and their own journeys to modern manhood.
Centers on the 1985 arrest and 2015 parole of former U.S. intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard, who was sentenced to life in prison for passing top secret information to the Israeli government.
Follows the forbidden romance between the rebellious bad boy Jonny and the good girl Toffee who falls in love with him. After falling into a nuclear reactor, Jonny returns to his love as a zombie.
Kept under wraps, but pitched as another live-action interpretation of the beloved cartoon classic about the dimwitted cyborg policeman.
Dramatizes the romances and artistic conflicts between four characters: a famed story writer, a young girl, a fading actress, and her playwright son.
Logline: No-nonsense irascible substitute teacher Mr. Garvey competes against a rival inner-city educator for the respect and admiration of the student body.
Logline: Follows the escapades of 12 year-old boy Finn and super-powered best friend dog Jake who fight fiercely in a quest to protect their bizarrely inhabited Land of Ooo from a wide array of foes and mythical creatures. Based on the widely popular Cartoon Network animated series.