"Coach Carter" director Thomas Carter is reteaming with Paramount Pictures on "Marcus Dixon," a feature film about the former Vanderbilt football recruit who was controversially imprisoned in a case that stirred up racial tensions and grabbed headlines. Carter will produce and direct. Paramount has acquired life rights from Marcus Dixon, who was convicted of aggravated child molestation after having consensual sex with a fellow student who was three months shy of 16. Dixon, who was 18 at the time, was sentenced to 10 years in prison after -- his supporters argued -- a law passed to stop child molestation was wrongly used to convict him. Dixon was released after 15 months in prison..." (full details)
Steven Conrad has been hired to adapt J. Robert Lennon's "Mailman: A Novel" for Paramount Pictures. "Mailman" revolves around Albert Lippincott, a letter carrier extraordinaire who is aggressively cheerful and obsessively efficient and who has a penchant for reading other people's mail. When one of his customers ends up dead, and Lippincott is holding the letter that might have saved his life, he sets out on a cross-country odyssey to reconcile with his own family and make meaning out of his life..." (full details)
Bob and Harvey Weinstein have picked up family fantasy pitch "The Impossible Adventures of Phineas Roone" from sibling scribes Adam and Melanie Wilson. Project centers on a 13-year-old Brooklyn boy who sets out to find the anonymous author of a popular fantasy-adventure book series when the publisher offers a million-dollar prize to whomever can find the mysterious scribe. Kid then discovers that the fantastical tales in the books are real. Weinsteins will develop the pitch as a possible franchise..." (full details)
Thanks to 'KC'.
