In Development

Old Man's War

Director: Shawn Levy Studio: Netflix Producers: Ryan Cunningham, Robyn Meisinger, Jon Shestack Writer: Jeremy Slater, Joby Harold

Based on the bestselling sci-fi novel by John Scalzi, OLD MAN’S WAR is an action-packed space opera adventure currently being developed at Netflix.

The story follows John Perry who at age 75 has buried his wife, said goodbye to his children, enlisted in the army and, given a rejuvenated body, gets sent off to the far reaches of the galaxy to defend earth from a shockingly hostile universe. The combination of the wisdom of age and the agility of youth makes the Colonial Defense Forces very effective, and as bloody battles pile up, John and his new comrades begin to wonder if being a warrior is really such a good thing.(Update: 9/22 Shawn Levy is now saying he wants to do the movie with Chris Hemsworth and wait till 2024 after he has done Deadpool 3. Stay tuned)

Blacksmith

Writer: Ben Ripley and Greg Poirier Producer: Jon Shestack, Jason Netter, Jeremy Stein, Bob Sobhani Studio: AGC Based on the Graphic Novel by Malik Evans and Richard Sparkman

BLACKSMITH follows an elite engineer and inventor working at an armory for spies, mercenaries, and assassins. When his employer company is destroyed and he’s framed for the crime, he’s thrust into the field for the first time to clear his name.

Airplane Mode

Writer: John Raffo Director: Reed Morano Based on the novel by Elliot Downing

Cassandra travels on airplanes for a living, but now airplanes have begun to follow her. A state-of-the-art spy plane with no official owner circles over every city she visits. A reclusive computer hacker, recently fired from an agency without a name, summons Cassandra to a meeting in the middle of nowhere to share an urgent message: Something has been growing in the cracks of our world, and it might not remain ours much longer…

Airplane Mode is a tense and disorienting work of present-day science fiction, set in the nowhere land of air travel and the everywhere land of ubiquitous surveillance, that explores the darker contours of the technological world we've created and speculates about how it might end. 

The Talented Ribkins

Studio: Disney + Based on the novel by Ladee Hubbard Producers: Jon Shestack, Reuben Cannon, Michael Richter and Meyre Schwarztien.

Immigrants

Writers: David Diamond & David Weissman

In 1939 the five amazing children of the Brach family, ages 16 to 25, have made their way from Hamburg, where they had a carefree and gracious life, to New York City, where they share a tenement flat. One sells shirts from a cart on the street, one is a seamstress, one who was once in medical school now empties bedpans, one dreams of resuming his study of violin. The temptations of the new world are many, still, they do everything they can to make new lives in America, stay together as a family... and they plot desperately to help their parents escape from Nazi Germany and join them in the new world.

The Last Adventure of Constance Verity

Director: Atsuko Hirayanagi Writer:John Raffo, Bisha K Ali, Atsuko Hirayanagi Starring: Awkwafina Studio: Legendary

All her life, Constance Verity has been the chosen one. She’s battled Hitler’s clones, discovered Atlantis, and met Dracula more times than she can remember. But when she gets sick of not being able to live a normal life and seeks to undo the gift/curse that’s attached to her, she’ll need help from a new friend if she’s serious about becoming “normal.”

Only Apparently Real

Writer: Michael Richter Producer: Michael Richter, Jon Shestack Based on the book Only Apparently Real by Paul Williams

This is a movie about an incident---a nervous breakdown really-- in the life of legendary science fiction writer Philip K Dick. He was suffering from writer's block, going through a rotten divorce, and maybe being spied on by the government. Then he overdosed, his apartment was violently ransacked; his safe was blown and manuscripts were stolen. It probably really happened, but since PKD is telling the story ...maybe not.

Free Radicals

Director: Xia Magnus Writer: Xia Magnus Starring: Isabelle Huppert Producers: Elyssa Polk, Xia Magnus, Jon Shestack  Studio: Miramax Based on the short story by Alice Munro

Free Radicals is a thriller based on a literary crime story by the Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro. The story is about a recently widowed woman whose solitary routine is interrupted when a young man who is a killer on the run talks his way into her house.

Il Mani

Writer: Xia Magnus Director: Xia Magnus

An American woman, recovering from a tough divorce, takes her extended family to an island off the Italian coast looking for a romantic and magical summer. Instead, she finds the churning labor unrest of Italy's Hot Autumn of 1970---and also----- the undead.

Black Room

BLACK ROOM is a horror thriller from prolific author Grady Hendrix, known for Paperbacks from Hell, and We Sold Our Souls. Combining The Exorcist and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf it looks at a possible haunting with excoriating psychological realism.