Film and TV Projects

FILM PROJECTS DEVELOPMENT

Ghost Patriot

Action/Thriller

Ghost Patriot is the untold true story of a slave, this hidden figure, who helped George Washington win the American Revolution in this action spy thriller full of twists and turns. To earn his freedom and save his wife from the British, James Armistead, gets recruited by George Washington as one of his top spies. In the final days of the Revolution, when the Americans were outnumbered and all hope was lost, Armistead was able to relay British troop movements to Washington allowing him to surprise attack the British at Yorktown and win the war. Without Armistead’s information would America have still won the Revolution? James Armistead Lafayette – Wikipedia

Producer: Academy Award Nominee John Singleton (in memoriam)
Director: Thomas Carter – Save the Last Dance, Coach Carter
Lead Actor: Quincy Isaiah – Winning Time

Art of the Con

Suspense/Heist

Based on the true story of the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa. The story detailed in The Saturday Evening Post about 3 men who break into the Louvre. Eduardo Valfierno and George Parker, famed con- man, commission French art forger Yves Chaudron to make 6 copies of the painting they just stole. They begin to sell them, claiming each as the original. They then return the original back in the Louver. Or did they? Why and How the Mona Lisa Was Stolen | The Saturday Evening Post

Director: Robert Schwentke – The Divergent Series

For the Greater Good

Action/Thriller

Based on the true story of the bombing of Coventry, Operation Moonlight Sonata. When the British break the Enigma code and discover the Germans are to bomb the city of Coventry in 2 weeks, Churchill has the impossible decision to let his city be bombed to keep a secret for the greater good of winning World War 2. When his top spies find out, one rushes off to Coventry to save his family while the other has been given orders to track him down and stop him at all costs. Even If he must kill him. Best friends chase across the British countryside, one to save his family and the other to save his country. Who will you root for? Operation Moonlight Sonata | Intelligence Analysis and Reporting (wordpress.com)

Written by J. Mills Goodloe – Age of Adaline, The Mountain Between Us

Nicholas

Historical/Christmas

Based on real events turned fantasy. Before there was the myth there was the man. Orphaned at a young age but destined to become immortal. Nicholas was born to a wealthy Christian family in the Roman Empire on March 15th, 270 AD. Times were dangerous to be Christian and the Romans loves using them as a scapegoat. It was a world to fend for yourself or die on the cross. When a plague swept across the region and his parents died, everyone fell on hard times. A local family whose father had no money and had to sell his 3 daughters into servitude. When Nicholas heard the story, he remembered what his parents taught him, to serve God and help the less fortunate. In the middle of the night, so no one would know, he dropped a sack of gold coins through the window of their house for three nights so their father could offer a dowry, so his daughters could marry. Nicholas then gave away all of his possessions and inheritance to the poor and took off on his journey that ended up in the north pole. Nicholas’ act of generosity set him on a path to immortality in becoming the most famous gift giver in the world… Santa Claus.

TELEVISION SERIES IN DEVELOPMENT

All Based on Best Selling Books and Authors

Black Caesar

Action/Drama

Based on true events of a prominent African tribal war chieftain named Chikere, who became one of the most feared pirates on the seas after his wife was enslaved. While captured on a ship, Chikere broke free and forced the captain and crew into a corner at gunpoint. But the ship eventually wrecked during a storm, and he ended up on a remote island eventually befriending another survivor, Edward Teach.
Chikere casts off his past, renames himself CAESAR, and commits to exacting revenge upon those who wronged him. Caesar and Ed hitch a ride off the island on what turns out to be a slave ship – so Caesar sparks a bloody rebellion that wins them the frigate. He and Ed take on an experienced crew at the pirate haven of New Providence, then Ed leads them into battle with his beard aflame, earning the name by which history knows him: BLACKBEARD. Black Caesar is on a journey to get his wife back. Things eventually come to a head with Blackbeard when their goals collide.

Untitled Military (NYT Best Seller)

Action/Drama

Based on real-life events, the New York Times Best Seller, is an edgy and emotional drama that goes inside the rowdy world of the Army’s underdogs. It’s a little-known fact that when the Army can’t discard its “problem” infantrymen outright, it sends them to a heavy weapons company. When a new Captain takes command of a unit of the Army has already written off misfits, the new Captain sees instead a group of hardheaded badasses. Working with his battle-tested first sergeant he turns the company into a sledgehammer in Afghanistan. This is a gritty drama of boys and men—from backwoods, inner cities, and suburbs—all strangers at first, but who would die for each other in the end. As they face death on the battlefield just after 9/11, they must also deal with family conflict thousands of miles away. Hill’s wife, leads the families “in the rear,” many of them now single parents. All must make tough moral choices as they live in the shadow of mortal uncertainty. As homefront and battlefront tensions escalate, his patriotic idealism is shattered when he finds that he must also fight his own government. As powerful forces tie his soldier’s hands and coddle the enemy, his faith in God drives him to protect his men and pursue justice. This Best Seller tautly weaves the men’s life-and-death frontline fight with their fight to keep their families together at home, bringing to vivid life the unseen sacrifice of America’s unsung soldiers.

Renoir

Drama

The true story of Augustine Renoir growing up trying to survive in Paris as a young man while learning how to paint. He learned how to hustle from his friend Claude Monet, he learned how to act like an a aristocrat from his friend Frederic Bazille, and running around with his friends like Manet, Cezzane, Pissaro and Degas all in the middle of the Franco-Prussian War.

Untitled Western

Action/Drama

The Intertwined stories of the famed Sioux/ Lakota Indians Red Cloud, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse as the west was developed, As western try to build new lives through westward expansion, they deal with the brutality of the American Natives.