John Lesher

CAA out with MINOR MODIFICATIONS by Shia LaBeouf. Based on the life of rapper Kevin Abstract; this biographical fiction follows a Texas teen as he struggles with identity, finding meaningful relationships, sexual fluidity, and his direction in life.

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Set in 1892, a legendary Army captain, who after stern resistance, begrudgingly agrees to escort a dying Cheyenne war chief and his family back to tribal lands.

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Rick Wershe worked undercover for the police to try and bring down drug dealers, but in an odd twist of fate was arrested and sentenced to life in prison for cocaine trafficking.

Logline: Based on the life-story of Richard Wershe Jr., who at the age of 14, went undercover as an informant for local and federal law enforcement agencies during the mid-80s and quickly went from being an asset to an issue after being arrested for possession of 17 pounds of cocaine at the age of 17 — and then sentenced to life without parole.

Logline: Based on the life-story of Richard Wershe Jr., who at the age of 14, went undercover as an informant for local and federal law enforcement agencies during the mid-80s and quickly went from being an asset to an issue after being arrested for possession of 17 pounds of cocaine at the age of 17 — and then sentenced to life without parole.

Logline: After discovering heroin smuggled in cattle, an ex-Marine working at a Montana slaughterhouse tries to sell the drugs to support his family while avoiding the dealers hunting for their stolen heroin.

Logline: A midwestern teacher begins to suspect that her docile husband is a serial killer as she starts an affair with a co-worker who has a violent past.

Logline: When an American investigator journeys to Rome to collect a debt, he encounters a Dantean underworld of crime and corruption that reaches to the highest souls in the Vatican.

Logline: Centers on two childhood friends now in their 30s, one of whom is successful, while the other has spent a good portion of his life in jail. Once he is released, however, he vows to seek revenge on his more successful friend.

Logline: Story follows an actor in crisis, who once played an iconic superhero, as he battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career, and himself in the days leading up to the opening of a Broadway play.