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.
Luke Davies
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.
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Photographer Dennis Stock follows and records James Dean’s life before he becomes an icon.
Photographer Dennis Stock follows and records James Dean’s life before he becomes an icon.
The selections of the 2014 Brit List
A couple travels to Haiti in order to finalize the adoption of their new baby, but when they arrive, the child mysteriously vanishes.
Logline: Based on a true story, a young Indian street boy takes the wrong train and is accidentally separated from his family, only to be adopted and raised by an Australian couple. Now an adult, he uses Google Earth to try and find his forgotten family.
Logline: Based on a true story, a young Indian street boy takes a wrong train and is accidentally separated from his family, only to be adopted and raised by an Australian couple. Now an adult, he uses Google Earth to try and find his forgotten family.
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: Details the relationship between magazine photographer Dennis Stock and James Dean.
Logline: Chronicles a young man’s addiction to methamphetamine and his family’s struggle to help him recover.
