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James Schamus
A working class Jewish boy from Newark, New Jersey, travels on scholarship to a small, conservative college in Ohio, thus exempting him from being drafted into the Korean War. But once there, Marcus’s growing infatuation with his beautiful classmate.
Now that the festival’s biggest purchase has been made, things are starting to get a little quieter at Sundance — but that doesn’t mean films aren’t getting snatched up by studios. Acquisitions are still being made on some of the festival’s most buzzed about titles and the first round of awards have been handed out for short filmmaking.
The untitled boxing film from Ang Lee follows the classic fight between Joe Frazier and Muhammed Ali. David Oyelowo is currently circling the role of Frazier.
Logline: Set in 1951, the story follows Marcus Messner, the idealistic son of a humble kosher butcher from Newark, N.J. Marcus leaves for Ohio to study at a small, conservative college, where he finds himself at odds with the administration, grapples with anti-Semitism and sexual repression, and pines after a troubled girl.
Heyman has signed on to produce while Schamus adapts the religious novel.
Logline: Story will chronicle the life of Jesus as a man.
A recap of the week’s exec moves!
Logline: An epic look at the boxing world of the 1960s and 1970s, as seen through the prism of its biggest rivalries and greatest fights.
Logline: Story is a reimagining of “Pride And Prejudice” but from the point of view of the servants.
Logline: Follows the experiences of three Iraqis returning to their home country after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
Logline: Kept under wraps but will chronicle the life of famed magician Harry Houdini with a “Lovecraftian” bent.
Logline: When a woman convinces her husband they should fabricate a “divorce” in order to find out which of their friends would side with who, the bluntly honest results leave them in deep regret, as they scramble to find a way to fix the mess, before all of their friends tell them what they “really” think.
Logline: The Israelis create a living martyr to advance the Hamas cause after failing to assassinate a Palestinian leader.
Logline: Centers on the larger-than-life African musician and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti.
Logline: The story follows a couple who survives an avalanche, and upon their return back to their hotel, they find they are the only survivors left. Not long after, they begin to see supernatural visions of their future, and begin to realize this silent world they live in is no longer their own.
Logline: A magical sea monster is captured by Louis XIV in 17th Century France and the fates of the creature and the king’s illegitimate daughter quickly become intwined.
Logline: A couple pretend to break up in order to see what their friends and family really think of their significant others.
Logline: A spy and twenty Union soldiers in disguise board a train in Georgia to execute a scheme that could bring a quick end to the U.S. civil war.