Based on a true story, a Nazi Judge derails the Holocaust from the inside. The Dissident was created by Leonid Leonov. The trailerboard was illustrated by comic book artists Billy Tucci and Mark McKenna, and the script was adapted into trailer board form by comics writer Mike Costa.
Check out the trailerboard for The Dissident. Would you want to see it as a movie? Let us know what you think.
Check out the trailerboard for The Dissident. Would you want to see it as a movie? Let us know what you think.
- 3/18/2014
- Hollywonk
“I’ve had close calls in the past and had things fall through with both major agencies and studios. The important thing is to always pick yourself up again and keep trying. It’s a cliché, but at the heart of every cliché is the truth,” said Leonid Leonov, a Prague based writer whose persistence just landed him on the Amazon Studios movie development slate.
The Dissident, penned by Leonov, is an intense historical drama about a Jewish American GI tasked with ‘extracting’ confessions from Nazi officers before the Nuremberg Trial. His beliefs are challenged by a Nazi SS judge who attempts to derail the Holocaust from the inside.
We asked Leonov about his inspirations, his script and his experience with Amazon Studios.
What inspired you to create this movie?
I stumbled across an article in, I think, the Guardian that mentioned the story of Konrad Morgen, this high-ranking Nazi...
The Dissident, penned by Leonov, is an intense historical drama about a Jewish American GI tasked with ‘extracting’ confessions from Nazi officers before the Nuremberg Trial. His beliefs are challenged by a Nazi SS judge who attempts to derail the Holocaust from the inside.
We asked Leonov about his inspirations, his script and his experience with Amazon Studios.
What inspired you to create this movie?
I stumbled across an article in, I think, the Guardian that mentioned the story of Konrad Morgen, this high-ranking Nazi...
- 9/17/2013
- Hollywonk
Amazon Studios continues to expand its film slate with a new project based on a true story – The Dissident. In The Dissident, a Jewish American GI tasked with ‘extracting’ confessions from Nazi officers before the Nuremberg Trials has his beliefs challenged by a Nazi SS judge who attempted to derail the Holocaust from the inside.
“My hope is that The Dissident accomplishes what is, in my opinion, the ideal goal of a historical drama, namely illuminating the past while forcing additional consideration of the present and future,”said The Dissident writer Leonid Leonov.
Details on the newly optioned project:
Writer: Leonid Leonov
Genre(s): Thriller and Suspense, Drama
Why we optioned it: It’s a challenging subject matter, but we believe this is a bold script. It asks difficult but pertinent questions that force us to confront our own attitudes to culpability, punishment and mercy. Ultimately it’s a...
“My hope is that The Dissident accomplishes what is, in my opinion, the ideal goal of a historical drama, namely illuminating the past while forcing additional consideration of the present and future,”said The Dissident writer Leonid Leonov.
Details on the newly optioned project:
Writer: Leonid Leonov
Genre(s): Thriller and Suspense, Drama
Why we optioned it: It’s a challenging subject matter, but we believe this is a bold script. It asks difficult but pertinent questions that force us to confront our own attitudes to culpability, punishment and mercy. Ultimately it’s a...
- 9/5/2013
- Hollywonk
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