New Line and producer Beau Flynn ("San Andreas") are developing a film adaptation of Jonathan Stokes' upcoming book series "The Thrifty Time Traveler's Guide".
The story follows a future time-travel agency which puts together affordable vacation packages to history's biggest events. The first books will span Ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire, the Middle Ages and WWII.
Meanwhile, Michael J. Roth and Steve Longi have acquired feature film and TV rights to the Off Broadway musical-comedy "Zombie Prom". Vince Marcello and Mark Landry will pen and Marcello will helm the feature film adaptation.
The musical-comedy homage to the musicals and films of the 1950s tells the story of a forbidden romance between the rebellious bad boy Jonny and the good girl Toffee. After falling into a nuclear reactor, Jonny returns to his love as a zombie.
Next up, Fuego Films is teaming with Emmy-winning journalist Giselle Fernandez and have hired...
The story follows a future time-travel agency which puts together affordable vacation packages to history's biggest events. The first books will span Ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire, the Middle Ages and WWII.
Meanwhile, Michael J. Roth and Steve Longi have acquired feature film and TV rights to the Off Broadway musical-comedy "Zombie Prom". Vince Marcello and Mark Landry will pen and Marcello will helm the feature film adaptation.
The musical-comedy homage to the musicals and films of the 1950s tells the story of a forbidden romance between the rebellious bad boy Jonny and the good girl Toffee. After falling into a nuclear reactor, Jonny returns to his love as a zombie.
Next up, Fuego Films is teaming with Emmy-winning journalist Giselle Fernandez and have hired...
- 6/9/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Mad Riot Entertainment, the production company of 300 producer Mark Canton and Lawrence Smith, has acquired rights to Operation Cowboy, the based-on-a-true-story book from Stephan Talty, whose book with Richard Phillips became the basis of the Columbia Pictures hit Captain Phillips starring Tom Hanks. Paul Russell Smith has penned the adaptation of Talty’s Operation Cowboy, which takes place during the final days of World War II. With the Russian Army marching…...
- 6/9/2015
- Deadline
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