Tom Hanks is set to produce and star in the adaptation of Paulette Jiles’ novel News of the World, the Tracking Board has confirmed. Lion writer Luke Davies is adapting the historical tale for Fox 2000.
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In 1870 Texas, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels delivering news to people when he’s tasked with taking a young girl to her family after being raised by the Kiowa tribe.
Plot details being kept under wraps.
The dystopian fantasy novel by Jacob Grey was published via HarperCollins on April 28th, and picked up by Fox in early April, news which the Tracking Board exclusively broke.
A poor Harvard graduate student finds employment, companionship, and wisdom from an unlikely friend during a difficult time. based on Jesse Kellerman’s novel of the same name.
Logline: Follows a disillusioned young man who arranges a bachelor party for his best friend at a locked-down location. But he has to fight for his life when it turns out that the groom is a werewolf.
Village Roadshow’s historical drama gets writers.
Logline: Follows the true story of a series of 1971 China-U.S.A. ping-pong matches that paved the way for President Nixon’s visit the next year.
Logline: A young widower attempts to build a house on a piece of property left to him by his deceased wife and becomes embroiled in the brutal criminal dealings of her dangerous family.
Logline: At the International flashpoint of Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin in the mid-80’s, an American spy of dubious loyalty must deal with the sudden reappearance of an old flame who also happens to be a highly placed mole inside Soviet intelligence – and who holds the key to what really happened at Chernobyl.
Logline: A former drug addict conspires to take down his family’s Brazilian drug cartel when a DEA agent and his longtime best friend offer him a chance to finally clean up his act.
Logline: A couple travels to Haiti in order to finalize the adoption of their new baby, but when they arrive, the child mysteriously vanishes.
Logline: A small Alpine community takes in an Austria-American man, unaware that he is aware of a dark secret the community harbors, and is there to seek vengeance.
Logline: Details the relationship between magazine photographer Dennis Stock and James Dean.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: After driving away his girlfriend, a womanizing man sets out to try to find her, win her back and change his way.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: When an aging Lothario steals the girlfriend of our young hero Scotty Epstein, Scotty realizes that to beat the legendary “silver fox” – he must become one himself.
Logline: Story follows two young men agree to kidnap the girlfriend of a famous football player, only to learn that the football player instigated the kidnapping to steal the ransom from the girl’s crime boss father, who dispatches an enforcer to get his money back.
Logline: Pitched as “Pirates of the Caribbean” meets ” Tombstone” meets “Sherlock Holmes,” story centers on “Buffalo Bill” Cody and his Wild West Show, which is the toast of Victorian London. When his Indians are jailed after being accused of a savage murder, Bill, the once legendary tracker, must get back in the saddle and prove them innocent, uncovering a fiendish plot against the Queen and Country.
Logline: Story centers on the supernatural elements that surround the kidnapping of an 8-year-old girl.
In a world where families are allowed only one child due to overpopulation, a resourceful set of identical septuplets must avoid governmental execution and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.
Logline: In a world where families are allowed only one child due to overpopulation, a resourceful set of identical septuplets must avoid governmental execution and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.
