Searchlight Pictures is in the midst of a deal to adapt the Oscar-nominated documentary feature “Fire of Love” into a narrative feature.
The film follows the scientific research and romance of preeminent French volcanologist filmmakers Katia and Maurice Krafft. Assembled from thousands of photographs and hundreds of hours of footage from the couple’s archives, we see the couple braving the dangers of volcanoes.
The narrative version will deal heavily with the love story between them and how the daring pair’s pursuit of what they love led to them paying the ultimate price in the 1991 Mount Unzen eruption in northern Japan with both dying in the incident.
Premiering at Sundance in 2022 and winning a Jury Prize there, the doco film was acquired by National Geographic and is the front runner to win Best Documentary at this year’s Oscars. Critical acclaim for the film is sky high with a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Searchlight Pictures will finance and distribute the narrative film which Jamie Patricof’s Hunting Lane will develop and produce. Sara Dosa, Ina Fichman and Shane Boris are attached to produce and no casting is available at this time.
The original documentary is available to stream now across much of the world, be it Disney+ or Hulu.
Source: Deadline
