The harrowing true story of British explorer Henry Worsley’s 2015 attempt to recreate his hero Ernest Shackleton’s infamous odyssey across Antarctica.
David Grann
Chronicles the true story of a con artist who impersonates teenagers that have gone missing
There’s a lot of juicy material to mine here, but the risk lies in making something like The Walk, a very good movie that still paled in comparison to the documentary (Man on Wire) that came before it.
In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned.
Chronicles the real-life 1920s mystery surrounding the suspicious deaths of several Osage Indians, who were at the time among the richest people on the planet. The investigation became the first major case solved by J. Edgar Hoover’s brand new FBI.
UPDATE (3.10.16): Imperative Entertainment wins the war for David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon with a massive $5 million bid, making this one of the richest book deals to go down in recent history. Imperative beat out an offer from Star Wars director JJ Abrams.
A massive bidding war is underway right now as some of Hollywood’s biggest players compete for the rights to Lost City of Z author David Grann’s upcoming Killers Of The Flower Moon. A-listers are attached and studios are swarming as the year’s biggest bidding war gets underway!
Chronicles the real-life 1920s mystery surrounding the suspicious deaths of several Osage Indians, who were at the time among the richest people on the planet. The story follows the twists and turns of the investigation that eventually became the first major case solved by J. Edgar Hoover’s brand new FBI.
Logline: An American rises through the ranks after helping Castro overthrow the Cuban government, but falls prey to accusations of his loyalties to both Cuba and the US.
Logline: Story follows the mysterious events behind the death of Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano, a Guatemalan attorney who, before his murder, recorded a video message saying if he were assassinated, President Alvaro Colom Caballeros of Guatemala would have been directly responsible.
Logline: Based on the life of Forrest Tucker who, at the age of 78, was finally caught by police in a high-speed chase. Prior to his arrest, Tucker escaped San Quentin prison and continued robbing banks in Texas and Oklahoma as a member of the Over-the-Hill Gang.
Logline: Centers on the rise of the Aryan Brotherhood as it becomes one of the violent and notorious gangs in America.
Logline: Based on the true story of Krystian Bala, a Polish writer who was convicted of murder in a previous cold case when he published a murder-mystery novel with details eerily similar to that of the crime.
Logline: Follows the true story of detective Jacek Wroblewski’s investigation into the cold case murder of small business owner Dariusz Janiszewski by the hands of author Krystian Bala.
Logline: The true story of British explorer Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett, who disappeared in 1925 while searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon.
Logline: New York City is in danger of losing it’s water supply if one of the two main underground acqueduct tunnels (which are near 100 years old) collapses. Though work began on Tunnel 3 in 1970, it is not slated to be finished until 2020.
