John Curran is looking to take over the directing duties of the indie Chappaquiddick which tapped Jason Clarke to star as Senator Ted Kennedy.
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The Birth of a Nation’s Nate Parker has been hired to pen the adaptation of former ESPN producer Lisa Fenn’s inspiration sports memoir, Carry On. The story about two disabled wrestlers from an impoverished Cleveland neighborhood is in the vein of The Blind Side and Friday Night Lights.
The true story an Emmy-winning features producer for ESPN and her 2009 return to her Cleveland hometown to chase a story on two disabled wrestlers who attended an impoverished public high school.
Fifty Shades of Grey director Sam Taylor-Johnson is in talks to direct 2015 Hit List script Chappaquiddick, which details the true story of Ted Kennedy’s infamous car accident in 1969.
The story takes a both historically factual and thrilling look at what really happened when Ted Kennedy drove off the road into a Martha’s Vineyard bay with Mary Jo Kopechne in the car.
The story takes a both historically factual and thrilling look at what really happened when Ted Kennedy drove off the road into a Martha’s Vineyard bay with Mary Jo Kopechne in the car.
Logline: True story of a high school volleyball player who died unexpectedly and how her team rallied in her honor to “Live Like Line” and win the championship.
