Disney has found their scribe for the live-action re-imagining of The Lion King with Jeff Nathanson. He will be teaming up with The Jungle Book director Jon Favreau to bring the fast-tracked production to life.
Jeff Nathanson
Captain Jack Sparrow searches for the trident of Poseidon.
Live-action adaptation of the popular animated film from Disney.
Lily James has signed on to star as the record-breaking swimmer, Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle, based on the book Young Woman And The Sea by Glenn Stout. Jerry Bruckheimer is producing the film for Paramount Pictures.
The daughter of a German butcher from Manhattan, Ederle was a competitive swimmer, an Olympic athlete who won gold in the 1924 Games when she decided to attempt crossing the channel.
Scribe takes on “Pirates” rewrite.
Logline: When a family finds themselves alone on an African safari, they slowly realize they’re going to need to face their family dysfunction head on to get home.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Centers on an ungainly young girl who was told she’d never be good enough to become a professional ballet dancer, and was never given a chance to prove herself, instead stuck backstage, dancing in the wings, hoping one day, she’d be good enough to see her dreams come true.
Rush Hour, Catch Me If You Can writer signs on to do a production polish on MIB 3 for Will Smith.
Logline: Agent Jay travels to the past and teams up with a young Agent Kay to stop an alien from destroying the future.
Logline: An overworked manager of a luxury building and his staff plan a heist against a rich fraudster living in their building after they lose their pensions to him in a Bernie Madoff-like scam.
Logline: Story explores a fictional theory that magician Harry Houdini was actually a spy for the U.S. and British governments, keeping war at bay, in one thrilling adventure after another.
Logline: Two young members of the worlds oldest, most powerful family race against other branches of the family to be the first to find the 39 clues that will lead to ultimate power.
Logline: Follows the true story of Milli Vanilli, a pop group fronted by Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus, who rose to fame on the music charts and quickly fell from grace when they were caught lip-syncing.
