Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot) will direct the film based on the amazing Syrian swimmer who helped save a boat full of refugees by pushing it across the Aegean Sea to Greece. She has since become a spokesperson and champion for refugees everywhere.
Jack Thorne
Hot off winning Best Director at the Oscars for La La Land, Damien Chazelle is attached to direct The Eddy, a new TV musical drama set in modern-day Paris. Jack Thorne will write the project.
The spec from Jack Thorne The Aeronauts is nearing a deal to find a home at Amazon Studios after an intensive round of bidding with various studios. Tom Harper is attached to helm the film.
An action adventure based on true events about two 19th century hot air balloonists – a young woman and a young man – who go higher than anyone has ever gone before.
Logline: Details are being kept under wraps, but story centers around the journey of a young woman and a young man in a hot air balloon who travel higher than anyone has gone before.
Julia Roberts is set to play Jacob Tremblay’s mother in Lionsgate’s adaptation of R.J. Palacio’s coming-of-age-novel Wonder. The story follows Auggie Pullman, a young boy with a facial deformity that is bullied at school.
Room star Jacob Tremblay is circling a role in Wonder at Lionsgate. The film is an adaptation of the coming-of-age-novel of the same name by R.J. Palacio.
Jack Thorne has been tasked with adapting Philip Pullman’s epic fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials for BBC One. New Line Cinema is producing the event series with Bad Wolf.
A man goes to space to destroy the sentient spacecraft that killed his wife.
Matt Sobel is now set to direct The Scorpio Races, based on the 2011 bestselling YA novel by Maggie Stiefvater, for Focus Features and David Katzenberg.
They’ve set “A Long Way Down” scribe Jack Thorne to pen the script.
Logline: A group of political officials in the United Kingdom play a game of war, which escalates on a disastrous level, threatening everyday life and exposing the inner-workings of the government.
Popular graphic novel about Marie and Pierre Curie will get big screen adaptation.
Logline: The lives of Marie Curie and her husband Pierre are chronicled as they fall in love and discover radioactivity.
Writer tackles comic adaptation.
Four people who coincidentally meet at the the top of a skyscraper with the intent of killing themselves decide instead to help each other get better.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Story follows a troubled 15-year-old New Yorker, sent across the pond to stay with her cousins, who embarks on a harrowing odyssey across the country when a foreign power invades England.
Lionsgate finds its writer for adaptation.
Bristish tv writer in talks to adapt Neil Gaiman’s next.
Logline: Kept under wraps but will focus on a man trying to hold back primal creatures from beyond the world.
Logline: A boy with facial deformities encounters bullying when he goes to public school for the first time in fifth grade.
Logline: A young boy grows up in a cult in which everyone wears orange. He tries to connect with his family and other cult members, but eventually finds the courage to break free.
Logline: Set in Britain, the story centers on a young man who must save his father’s life during the Crusades.
Logline: Every November, people compete in the Scorpio Races- a contest in which riders attempt to stay on their water horses until the finish line. Not everyone will survive.
Logline: The story, set in a post-apocalyptic world, centers on a girl who must rescue her kidnapped brother after he was taken by mysterious-robed riders.
Logline: Story follows a young Ghanain boy, newly arrived in London, who becomes fascinated with the local gang (and the unsolved murder of a local boy) and the pigeon that visits his balcony.
Logline: A British gentleman and a Pakistani shopkeeper form an unlikely friendship.
Logline: Story centers on a group of high school kids as their schoolings comes to and end, and their real life is about to begins.
Logline: Story follows a troubled 15-year-old New Yorker, sent across the pond to stay with her cousins, who embarks on a harrowing odyssey across the country when a foreign power invades England.
