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Unfit
Feb 3, 2017 20:23:19 GMT -6
Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Feb 3, 2017 20:23:19 GMT -6
deadline.com/2017/02/unfit-dakota-johnson-carrie-buck-amazon-studios-spec-script-auction-1201901211/Amazon Wins ‘Unfit’ Auction; Dakota Johnson Circling RatPac Drama EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios just won a multi-studio bidding battle and has paid mid-six figures for Unfit, a spec script by Melissa London Hilfers that RatPac will produce, with Fifty Shades of Grey‘s Dakota Johnson circling. Her deal isn’t closed. Brett Ratner and John Cheng are producing. Here is the logline of the fact-based story: In the not-so-distant past, America was gripped by a political movement that promised to eliminate the “unfit” from our country. This is the shocking true story of Carrie Buck, a young Virginia woman who became a lightning rod for that movement and was forced to singlehandedly fight against it for the one thing she desperately wanted – to be a mother. Hilfers, a former litigation lawyer, has been busy since turning to screenwriting. She sold the spec Undone to Black Bear and Parkes/MacDonald last year, and she currently is rewriting an untitled Emily Dickinson project for Ellen Kuras to direct for M.Y.R.A. Entertainment. She is repped by Paradigm, managed by Alan Gasmer and lawyered by Allison Binder. Johnson is WME.
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Unfit
Mar 8, 2017 2:08:12 GMT -6
Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Mar 8, 2017 2:08:12 GMT -6
deadline.com/2017/03/dakota-johnson-star-in-unfit-buck-v-bell-ratpac-1202038585/Dakota Johnson Sworn In For RatPac’s Courtroom Drama ‘Unfit’ As Deadline tipped early last month, Fifty Shades star Dakota Johnson will topline in Unfit, a fact-based courtroom drama set in the 1920s. Amazon Studios won a multi-studio bidding battle for the pic, on which Johnson also will serve as an executive producer under her Silhouette Productions with Brett Ratner and John Cheng of RatPac Entertainment producing. The spec script, based on Adam Cohen’s book Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck, was written by former litigation lawyer Melissa London Hilfers. REX/Shutterstock The logline: In the not-so-distant past, America was gripped by a political movement that promised to eliminate the “unfit” from our country. Unfit is the true story of Carrie Buck, a young Virginia woman who became a lightning rod for that movement, whose 1927 Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell legalized the sterilization of “undesirable” citizens. Buck was forced to fight against it singlehandedly for the one thing she desperately wanted: to be a mother. “Like many, I was not privy to this shocking and fascinating moment in American history,” Johnson said. “I quickly became obsessed with the prospect of shedding light on the massive misstep in American justice. Carrie Buck’s story is poignant and galvanizing, and certain aspects are unnervingly congruent with the relationship between the government and women today. It is an important story that alongside RatPac and Amazon, I am honored and eager to tell.” Said Ratner: “Dakota had told me about the book Imbeciles at a lunch last year, and when John Cheng and I read the spec script, we sent it to her immediately. I couldn’t be more thrilled be involved in this project with Dakota and Amazon, because I know Amazon’s passion and enthusiasm for telling this story is just as strong as Dakota’s. Although this story took place almost a hundred years ago, the subject matter is unbelievably timely.”
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