Exclusive: Aaron Magnani has optioned screen rights to Walker Percy’s New York Times bestseller The Second Coming, with plans to develop the novel for film.
He’s currently in search of a director for the adaptation and will produce via under his Aaron Magnani Productions banner. Peter Arneson adapted the script and will executive produce.
The story centers on a wealthy, suicidal widower who searches for proof of God but finds much more when he meets a young woman fugitive from a mental hospital. Influenced by the real-life suicides of Percy’s father and grandfather and suspected suicide of his mother, the plot combines comedy, tragedy and romance, with themes of alienation and redemption.
“This story is very relatable to the world we have been living in,” said Magnani. “And the adaptation is as much a director’s piece as an actor’s piece and incredible character study.”
Percy...
He’s currently in search of a director for the adaptation and will produce via under his Aaron Magnani Productions banner. Peter Arneson adapted the script and will executive produce.
The story centers on a wealthy, suicidal widower who searches for proof of God but finds much more when he meets a young woman fugitive from a mental hospital. Influenced by the real-life suicides of Percy’s father and grandfather and suspected suicide of his mother, the plot combines comedy, tragedy and romance, with themes of alienation and redemption.
“This story is very relatable to the world we have been living in,” said Magnani. “And the adaptation is as much a director’s piece as an actor’s piece and incredible character study.”
Percy...
- 3/17/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Aaron Magnani has optioned Laura Munson’s bestselling novel Willa’s Grove for film, setting screenwriter Sarah Hopkins to adapt it for the screen.
The story revolves around four women, each adrift in their own way, who discover the power of sisterhood as they converge in the wilds of Montana to figure out their next act. Its protagonist, Willa Silvester, is found reeling from the death of her beloved husband and the reality that she must say goodbye to the small mountain town they founded together. She then must face the tough question staring her in the face: So now what?
Magnani will produce the feature adaptation under his Aaron Magnani Productions banner, with Brendan Deneen and Josh Stanton of Blackstone serving as exec producers.
Munson also authored the New York Times bestseller This Is Not The Story You Think It Is, which chronicles her journey through her own midlife crossroads.
The story revolves around four women, each adrift in their own way, who discover the power of sisterhood as they converge in the wilds of Montana to figure out their next act. Its protagonist, Willa Silvester, is found reeling from the death of her beloved husband and the reality that she must say goodbye to the small mountain town they founded together. She then must face the tough question staring her in the face: So now what?
Magnani will produce the feature adaptation under his Aaron Magnani Productions banner, with Brendan Deneen and Josh Stanton of Blackstone serving as exec producers.
Munson also authored the New York Times bestseller This Is Not The Story You Think It Is, which chronicles her journey through her own midlife crossroads.
- 11/1/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Aaron Magnani has acquired rights to Capital Crimes, the 32-part crime thriller book series originated by President Harry S. Truman’s daughter Margaret Truman, with plans to adapt them into a TV series.
Magnani will develop and produce the series adaptation via his Aaron Magnani Productions.
The potential series will center on the books’ hero Robert Brixton, a rugged former cop and special operator who served with Sitqual, a private security arm of the State Department. Brixton’s skills, as one of the few internationally licensed private investigators, are put to use against an assortment of villains and plots seeking to do the country great harm; all the books are set in Washington, D.C. Tortured by witnessing the death of his daughter in a terrorist bombing there, Brixton is guided by an unrelenting desire to safeguard the innocent. He’s currently engaged to longtime fiancée Flo Combs, and...
Magnani will develop and produce the series adaptation via his Aaron Magnani Productions.
The potential series will center on the books’ hero Robert Brixton, a rugged former cop and special operator who served with Sitqual, a private security arm of the State Department. Brixton’s skills, as one of the few internationally licensed private investigators, are put to use against an assortment of villains and plots seeking to do the country great harm; all the books are set in Washington, D.C. Tortured by witnessing the death of his daughter in a terrorist bombing there, Brixton is guided by an unrelenting desire to safeguard the innocent. He’s currently engaged to longtime fiancée Flo Combs, and...
- 8/20/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Cast has been set for Rally Caps, a baseball themed family feature from writer-director Lee Cipolla (The Shift).
Oscar-nominee Judd Hirsch (Uncut Gems), Amy Smart (Star Girl) and Carson Minniear (Palmer) have all signed up. The film is based on the novel written by father-daughter team Stephen J. Cutler and Jodi Michelle Cutler. Also starring are Curtis Pride, his children Noelle Pride, Colten Pride, and Tim Kurkjian.
It follows a youth baseball player who has his dreams of pitching for a Little League travel team derailed by a devastating injury on the field. After a long recovery process, he goes off to away camp with his older brother where he befriends a deaf catcher and his sister. Based on their own experiences living with a disability, they help him overcome his anxiety and fear of returning to the mound.
Producers are Katherine Borda, Amy Williams, Gary Sales and William Garcia.
Oscar-nominee Judd Hirsch (Uncut Gems), Amy Smart (Star Girl) and Carson Minniear (Palmer) have all signed up. The film is based on the novel written by father-daughter team Stephen J. Cutler and Jodi Michelle Cutler. Also starring are Curtis Pride, his children Noelle Pride, Colten Pride, and Tim Kurkjian.
It follows a youth baseball player who has his dreams of pitching for a Little League travel team derailed by a devastating injury on the field. After a long recovery process, he goes off to away camp with his older brother where he befriends a deaf catcher and his sister. Based on their own experiences living with a disability, they help him overcome his anxiety and fear of returning to the mound.
Producers are Katherine Borda, Amy Williams, Gary Sales and William Garcia.
- 7/30/2021
- by Tom Grater and Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The Last Word executive producer Aaron Magnani has acquired screen rights to Gearbreakers, the upcoming debut novel from 19-year-old author Zoe Hana Mikuta. The Ya book, which combines action, adventure and sci-fi, will be published in spring 2021 by Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan, with a follow-up due the next year.
Magnani will develop and produce the adaptation via his Aaron Magnani Productions and is now looking for a screenwriter after beating out other bids for the book rights.
The story is set in a warring age where a power-hungry nation uses microchip-implanted human pilots to “puppeteer” 100-foot-tall mecha robots called “Windups.” A rag-tag group of renegades known as Gearbreakers, led by a young heroine, looks to infiltrate the Windups and take the bionic nightmares apart from the inside out in the name of freedom.
“With a Hunger Games-esque intensity and a Transformers-like sense of spectacle, a film based on this property...
Magnani will develop and produce the adaptation via his Aaron Magnani Productions and is now looking for a screenwriter after beating out other bids for the book rights.
The story is set in a warring age where a power-hungry nation uses microchip-implanted human pilots to “puppeteer” 100-foot-tall mecha robots called “Windups.” A rag-tag group of renegades known as Gearbreakers, led by a young heroine, looks to infiltrate the Windups and take the bionic nightmares apart from the inside out in the name of freedom.
“With a Hunger Games-esque intensity and a Transformers-like sense of spectacle, a film based on this property...
- 9/24/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, India Eisley-Mickey River drama “Adolescence” gets distribution and romance “Castle of Water” and horror short “They Hear It” are in development.
Distribution Rights
North of Two has acquired worldwide distribution rights to the dark coming-of-age drama “Adolescence,” starring India Eisley and Mickey River with Ashley Avis directing, Variety has learned exclusively.
The film was produced by Winterstone Pictures and is set to make its festival debut this fall. River portrays a shy teenager who falls in love with a beautiful, enigmatic runaway, played by Eisley, and is lured away from his bland life and into her vibrant and unpredictable world. He slips down a progressively dark path, filled with raging parties, drugs, and eventually heroin addiction.
The cast also includes Romeo Miller, Tommy Flanagan, Elisabeth Rohm, Jere Burns, Ever Carradine, Michael Milford, and Zac Brown Band member John Driskell Hopkins.
The film...
Distribution Rights
North of Two has acquired worldwide distribution rights to the dark coming-of-age drama “Adolescence,” starring India Eisley and Mickey River with Ashley Avis directing, Variety has learned exclusively.
The film was produced by Winterstone Pictures and is set to make its festival debut this fall. River portrays a shy teenager who falls in love with a beautiful, enigmatic runaway, played by Eisley, and is lured away from his bland life and into her vibrant and unpredictable world. He slips down a progressively dark path, filled with raging parties, drugs, and eventually heroin addiction.
The cast also includes Romeo Miller, Tommy Flanagan, Elisabeth Rohm, Jere Burns, Ever Carradine, Michael Milford, and Zac Brown Band member John Driskell Hopkins.
The film...
- 7/10/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Producer Aaron Magnani has acquired screen rights to Castle of Water, the 2017 romantic adventure novel from Dane Huckelbridge. Peter Arneson has adapted the screenplay, and the pic will be produced by Magnani via his Aaron Magnani Productions and executive produced by Brendan Deneen. A search for a director is underway.
The plot centers on two survivors of a plane crash—an American man and a newly widowed French woman—who struggle to live and love while marooned on a tropical island.
“It’s a gripping story of loss, survival and love, full of surprising twists,” Magnani said. “Two characters of different cultures and sensibilities rescue each other, literally and figuratively, in a way unlike any survival tale I’ve come across.”
Magnani was an executive producer on The Last Word, the 2017 Sundance pic starring Shirley MacLaine and Amanda Seyfried; Bleecker Street released it in March 2017. His company is currently...
The plot centers on two survivors of a plane crash—an American man and a newly widowed French woman—who struggle to live and love while marooned on a tropical island.
“It’s a gripping story of loss, survival and love, full of surprising twists,” Magnani said. “Two characters of different cultures and sensibilities rescue each other, literally and figuratively, in a way unlike any survival tale I’ve come across.”
Magnani was an executive producer on The Last Word, the 2017 Sundance pic starring Shirley MacLaine and Amanda Seyfried; Bleecker Street released it in March 2017. His company is currently...
- 7/9/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
A biopic about actress Hattie McDaniel, the Gone With the Wind star who became the first African American to win an Academy Award, is in development.
Variety reports that producers Alysia Allen and Aaron Magnani have acquired the writes to author Jill Watts’ biography Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood with the plan to bring the pioneering actress' life story to the big screen.
The daughter of freed slaves, McDaniel started in vaudeville and radio before portraying Mammy, a housemaid to Vivien Leigh's Scarlett O'Hara, in the legendary adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's novel.
Variety reports that producers Alysia Allen and Aaron Magnani have acquired the writes to author Jill Watts’ biography Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood with the plan to bring the pioneering actress' life story to the big screen.
The daughter of freed slaves, McDaniel started in vaudeville and radio before portraying Mammy, a housemaid to Vivien Leigh's Scarlett O'Hara, in the legendary adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's novel.
- 1/10/2018
- Rollingstone.com
A biopic on Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American actress to receive an acting nomination and to win an Academy Award, is officially in the works.
Producer Alysia Allen has obtained the film rights to Jill Watts’ biography Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood and will produce with Aaron Magnani. The producers are currently searching for the right screenwriter to adapt the book for the screen.
McDaniel — who was the youngest daughter of freed slaves — began her career as an acclaimed Vaudeville performer and one of the first black women on radio. She appeared in countless...
Producer Alysia Allen has obtained the film rights to Jill Watts’ biography Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood and will produce with Aaron Magnani. The producers are currently searching for the right screenwriter to adapt the book for the screen.
McDaniel — who was the youngest daughter of freed slaves — began her career as an acclaimed Vaudeville performer and one of the first black women on radio. She appeared in countless...
- 1/10/2018
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Stephon Stewart has lined up a trio of big names for his futuristic directorial debut Vestige.
Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler), Analeigh Tipton (Crazy, Stupid, Love) and Anne Heche (The Last Word) have signed up for the sci-fi drama thriller, described as "Ex Machina meets Black Swan and Whiplash."
Aaron Magnani will produce through his eponymous banner, Aaron Magnani Productions.
Set in a forlorn future controlled by artificial intelligence, the story — written by Stewart — centers around a distraught Olympian figure skater (Tipton) who must overcome her demons and attempt to escape her infinite world to compete for the Winter...
Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler), Analeigh Tipton (Crazy, Stupid, Love) and Anne Heche (The Last Word) have signed up for the sci-fi drama thriller, described as "Ex Machina meets Black Swan and Whiplash."
Aaron Magnani will produce through his eponymous banner, Aaron Magnani Productions.
Set in a forlorn future controlled by artificial intelligence, the story — written by Stewart — centers around a distraught Olympian figure skater (Tipton) who must overcome her demons and attempt to escape her infinite world to compete for the Winter...
- 11/1/2017
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Anne Heche is in negotiations to join Analeigh Tipton and Mickey Rourke in Stephon Stewart's Vestige a sci-fi thriller that involved artificial intelligence. Stewart both scripted and will direct the project for producer Aaron Magnani. The script is described as Ex Machina meets Black Swan and Whiplash with a multi-layered visionary story that answers the questions: Who will be victorious, science or humanity, and What is the reality of our universe? Lawrence…...
- 10/31/2017
- Deadline
On the eve of Afm the distributor has picked up Us rights from Myriad to the dramedy with Shirley MacLaine and Amanda Seyfried attached to star.
Production is scheduled for early 2016 and Myriad is financing the project and will continue talks with international buyers at the Santa Monica market this week.
Mark Pellington directs from a screenplay by Stuart Fink about the unlikely friendship that arises when a retired businesswoman conscious of her mortality meets a local newspaper reporter eager to get the scoop on her life story.
Pellington, Anne-Marie MacKay of Wondros and Myriad Pictures chief Kirk D’Amico produce while Aaron Magnani serves as executive producer.
Kent Sanderson, president of acquisitions and ancillary distribution for Bleecker Street, brokered the deal with D’Amico and UTA Independent Film Group on behalf of the production.
Production is scheduled for early 2016 and Myriad is financing the project and will continue talks with international buyers at the Santa Monica market this week.
Mark Pellington directs from a screenplay by Stuart Fink about the unlikely friendship that arises when a retired businesswoman conscious of her mortality meets a local newspaper reporter eager to get the scoop on her life story.
Pellington, Anne-Marie MacKay of Wondros and Myriad Pictures chief Kirk D’Amico produce while Aaron Magnani serves as executive producer.
Kent Sanderson, president of acquisitions and ancillary distribution for Bleecker Street, brokered the deal with D’Amico and UTA Independent Film Group on behalf of the production.
- 11/2/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Myriad Pictures announced in Toronto it will finance and handle international sales on the comedy-drama to star Shirley MacLaine and Amanda Seyfried.
Mark Pellington will direct The Last Word from a screenplay by Stuart Fink about a retiring successful businesswoman and a young local reporter who become friends as they prepare the former’s obituary.
Pellington, Anne-Marie MacKay of Wondros and Myriad’s Kirk D’Amico will produce with Aaron Magnani serving as an executive producer.
“This is a funny, heartwarming and emotionally tender tale of life,” said Pellington. “It explores the true source of power for independent women, and is a riotous life affirming film about the lessons learned through time and the generational gifts that are bestowed.
“We’re thrilled to be making this film with the very talented Mark Pellington, and we can’t wait to see Shirley MacLaine and Amanda Seyfried shine in these two roles which seem to be tailor-made for them...
Mark Pellington will direct The Last Word from a screenplay by Stuart Fink about a retiring successful businesswoman and a young local reporter who become friends as they prepare the former’s obituary.
Pellington, Anne-Marie MacKay of Wondros and Myriad’s Kirk D’Amico will produce with Aaron Magnani serving as an executive producer.
“This is a funny, heartwarming and emotionally tender tale of life,” said Pellington. “It explores the true source of power for independent women, and is a riotous life affirming film about the lessons learned through time and the generational gifts that are bestowed.
“We’re thrilled to be making this film with the very talented Mark Pellington, and we can’t wait to see Shirley MacLaine and Amanda Seyfried shine in these two roles which seem to be tailor-made for them...
- 9/12/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Producer Aaron Magnani has optioned the screen rights to Dr. Richard Baer's bestselling non-fiction book “Switching Time: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities,” TheWrap has learned. Screenwriter Jen Kleiner will adapt the psychiatrist's book as a psychological drama that will be produced by Aaron Magnani Productions. “Switching Time” is based on a real-life case of multiple personality disorder. The book chronicles Baer's gripping account of treating a woman who created 17 different personalities in order to deal with emotional trauma stemming from abuse she suffered in the past. Also read: G.P. Ching's ‘Soulkeepers’ Book Series Heading to the.
- 6/5/2014
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Producer Aaron Magnani has picked up the option to G.P. Ching's young adult paranormal book series "Soulkeepers" with the aim of turning it into a possible franchise.
The six books in the series are based in a world where Heaven and Hell wage war for human souls. A teenage boy discovers he has the ability to protect souls from Fallen Angels, and he begins to learn how to harness this skill thanks to his beautiful and mysterious neighbor.
Meanwhile, Sony Pictures has picked up the family adventure pitch "Stranded" which will be shaped as a Kevin James vehicle. Tripper Clancy will write the "Swiss Family Robinson"-inspired script about a family shipwrecked on a deserted island.
Source: THR...
The six books in the series are based in a world where Heaven and Hell wage war for human souls. A teenage boy discovers he has the ability to protect souls from Fallen Angels, and he begins to learn how to harness this skill thanks to his beautiful and mysterious neighbor.
Meanwhile, Sony Pictures has picked up the family adventure pitch "Stranded" which will be shaped as a Kevin James vehicle. Tripper Clancy will write the "Swiss Family Robinson"-inspired script about a family shipwrecked on a deserted island.
Source: THR...
- 5/30/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
A new young adult series is coming to the big screen. G.P. Ching's Soulkeepers has been picked up for development by producer Aaron Magnani. The six-book series follows a teenage boy who discovers he has the ability to protect souls from Fallen Angels. Search for a male lead is already underway.
According to THR, the series is based "in a world where Heaven and Hell wage war for human souls on Earth." The story follows a teen boy named Jacob, "who's a bit of a hothead and a vandal" but has the ability to protect souls from Fallen Angels. He soon begins to learn how to harness this skill from his beautiful and mysterious neighbor, Dr. Abigail Silva, and soon unlocks new discoveries in faith, love and redemption.
The first book from the series was released in the summer of 2011, and the sixth and final book hit stores in...
According to THR, the series is based "in a world where Heaven and Hell wage war for human souls on Earth." The story follows a teen boy named Jacob, "who's a bit of a hothead and a vandal" but has the ability to protect souls from Fallen Angels. He soon begins to learn how to harness this skill from his beautiful and mysterious neighbor, Dr. Abigail Silva, and soon unlocks new discoveries in faith, love and redemption.
The first book from the series was released in the summer of 2011, and the sixth and final book hit stores in...
- 5/29/2014
- by Laura Frances
- LRMonline.com
Soulkeepers, a paranormal Ya series, has been optioned for the big screen by producer Aaron Magnani. The six-books series by G.P. Ching is based in a world where Heaven and Hell wage war for human souls on Earth. A teenage boy named Jacob, who's a bit of a hothead and a vandal, discovers he has the ability to protect souls from Fallen Angels. He begins to learn how to harness this skill from his beautiful and mysterious neighbor, Dr. Abigail Silva, and soon unlocks new discoveries in faith, love and redemption. Photos: Teenage Dreams: 17 of the Most Popular
read more...
read more...
- 5/29/2014
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Producer Aaron Magnani has optioned the screen rights to author G.P. Ching's popular young adult book series “The Soulkeepers,” TheWrap has learned. In the six-book series, Heaven and Hell wage a war for human souls. A teenager named Jacob becomes an unlikely hero as he realizes he has the genetic predisposition to be a Soulkeeper — a gifted warrior with the power to protect humans from fallen angels. The only problem is that he's a hot-headed vandal and a skeptic. It'll take a beautiful neighbor who's more than what she seems to teach him the truth about faith, loyalty, love.
- 5/28/2014
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
According to Deadline Hollywood, Evan Rachel Wood is now attached to 18 Wheel Butterfly, the forthcoming throwback film from director Michael Polish (The Astronaut Farmer, For Lovers Only). The film was written by newcomer Christian Divine and tells the 1977-set story of a female truck driver named Rainbeaux who is wrongfully accused of a crime which forces her on a highway chase away from Smokey and some fellow truckers. The project, headed by Aaron Magnani at Water Bear Productions is looking for financing. It’s definitely got a unique tilt to it as well as some magnetic talent, although it’s curious why both Polish Brothers aren’t working together on this or on Michael’s forthcoming Big Sur. If the money gets its budget and becomes a success, it’s easy to imagine studios following suit with movies about women truckers or figuring out what 1977 titles are in their libraries for the remaking. At...
- 8/31/2012
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Michael Polish (Twin Falls Idaho, Northfork) has attached himself to direct. Evan Rachel Wood is in talks to star as the lead character, a female trucker named “Rainbeaux” 18 Wheel Butterfly by Christian Divine is a colorful road movie. An adorable gear-grindin’ female trucker is accused of a crime that she did not commit and must outrace the law, brother truckers, feds and bounty hunters in the in the Texas bubble gum, redneck chic summer of 1977. Compared to a throwback to Smokey & The Bandit, Convoy, Sugerland Express, Thelma & Louise. 18 Wheel Butterfly will be produced by Aaron Magnani under his Water Bear/Aaron Magnani Productions Banner along with A Polish Brothers Construction. Magnani and producers are currently seeking financing. Michael Polish directed and recently released, For Lovers Only, and the upcoming Big Sur based on 1962 novel by Jack Kerouac. Wood will be seen in the upcoming, “A Case of You” with Vince Vaughn...
- 8/28/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Evan Rachel Wood is set to star in 18 Wheel Butterfly written by Christian Divine which will be helmed by Michael Polish, and produced by Aaron Magnani. Variety reports that the film is being described as a cross between comedy Smokey and the Bandit and crime drama Thelma and Louise. The film takes place in Texas in summer, 1977 and has Wood as Rainbeaux, a driver who must dodge te law as well as fellow truckers and a bounty hunter due to a crime she's accused of, but didn't commit. Magnani of Water Bear/Aaron Magnani Productions will produce alongside Mark and Michael Polish's Polish Brothers Construction...
- 8/28/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Evan Rachel Wood is set to star in 18 Wheel Butterfly written by Christian Divine which will be helmed by Michael Polish, and produced by Aaron Magnani. Variety reports that the film is being described as a cross between comedy Smokey and the Bandit and crime drama Thelma and Louise. The film takes place in Texas in summer, 1977 and has Wood as Rainbeaux, a driver who must dodge te law as well as fellow truckers and a bounty hunter due to a crime she's accused of, but didn't commit. Magnani of Water Bear/Aaron Magnani Productions will produce alongside Mark and Michael Polish's Polish Brothers Construction...
- 8/28/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Ray Liotta is in negotiations to play the villain in Karyn Kusama's indie drama "The Rut" says The Hollywood Reporter.
Kevin Caruso's script centers on a young girl (Chloe Moretz) who journeys into the wilderness alone to hunt deer and win the approval of her father (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).
Liotta will play a rival hunter obsessed with bow hunting and who considers Morgan's character his rival. Aaron Magnani and Martha Griffin are producing.
Kevin Caruso's script centers on a young girl (Chloe Moretz) who journeys into the wilderness alone to hunt deer and win the approval of her father (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).
Liotta will play a rival hunter obsessed with bow hunting and who considers Morgan's character his rival. Aaron Magnani and Martha Griffin are producing.
- 4/21/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Ray Liotta is potentially joining Chloe Moretz and Jeffrey Dean Morgan in The Rut , an upcoming drama to be directed by Karyn Kusama. The Hollywood Reporter says that the Goodfellas actors is in talks to play the film's villain. The Rut focuses on a father-daughter relationship that takes place in the world of hunting where Moretz's character has to use tricks taught to her by her father to survive when he goes missing. The script was written by Kevin Caruso. Aaron Magnani and Martha Griffin are producing. Teri and Trevor Moretz are executive producing. Filming is expected to start in October. (Photo Credit: Brian To / WENN.com)...
- 4/20/2012
- Comingsoon.net
Jeffrey Dean Morgan is joining Chloe Moretz in The Rut , the new drama to be directed by Karyn Kusama, reports Heat Vision . The film is about a father-daughter relationship that takes place in the world of hunting where Moretz's character has to use tricks taught to her by her father to survive when he goes missing. The script was written by Kevin Caruso. Aaron Magnani and Martha Griffin are producing. Teri and Trevor Moretz are executive producing. Filming is expected to start in October. (Photo Credit: Adriana M. Barraza/WENN.com)...
- 1/14/2012
- Comingsoon.net
Jeffrey Dean Morgan ("Watchmen," "Supernatural") and Chloe Moretz ("Hugo," "Kick Ass") are teaming for Karyn Kusama's gritty indie drama "The Rut" at Water Bear/Aaron Magnani Prods. reports Variety.
Moretz plays a teenage girl who aims to win the approval of her father (Morgan) by journeying into the wilderness alone to hunt the greatest of deer. Kevin Caruso wrote the script.
The pair previously worked together on the recent thriller "Texas Killing Fields". Aaron Magnani and Martha Griffin will produce.
Moretz plays a teenage girl who aims to win the approval of her father (Morgan) by journeying into the wilderness alone to hunt the greatest of deer. Kevin Caruso wrote the script.
The pair previously worked together on the recent thriller "Texas Killing Fields". Aaron Magnani and Martha Griffin will produce.
- 1/14/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Chris Evans‘ stock raised a good deal this past year with Captain America: The First Avenger, and, for his own good, he’s reprising the same role in just a few months with The Avengers. But those fun, mildly diverting efforts aren’t really what he wants to be doing — I mean, the best performance Evans gave last year was in a film nobody saw.
So I give him a ton of credit for stepping outside the box a little more, with Variety reporting that he’s in talks to lead Bong Joon-ho‘s English-language debut, Snow Piercer. Written by the Mother helmer and producer Park Chan-wook, the post-apocalyptic story — an adaptation of the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige — follows “a group of people on a train without a final destination, struggling to survive after the end of the world brings on a cataclysmic ice age.” It’s been said...
So I give him a ton of credit for stepping outside the box a little more, with Variety reporting that he’s in talks to lead Bong Joon-ho‘s English-language debut, Snow Piercer. Written by the Mother helmer and producer Park Chan-wook, the post-apocalyptic story — an adaptation of the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige — follows “a group of people on a train without a final destination, struggling to survive after the end of the world brings on a cataclysmic ice age.” It’s been said...
- 1/14/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Jeffrey Dean Morgan is attached to star in The Rut, an indie drama being directed by Karyn Kusama. Morgan will join Chloe Moretz, currently seen in Hugo, in what is being described as Winter’s Bone meets Into the Wild. Written by Kevin Caruso, the story centers on a young girl (Moretz) who, in order to win the approval of her father (Morgan), surrounds herself with danger and adventure as she journeys into the wilderness alone to hunt deer. Aaron Magnani and Martha Griffin are producing. Teri and Trevor Moretz are exec producing. Financing is being put together and the
read more...
read more...
- 1/14/2012
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.