The Girls I’ve Been
Netflix is planning a feature adaptation of Tess Sharpe’s novel “The Girls I’ve Been” into a feature film with Millie Bobby Brown attached to star and Jason Bateman on board to produce. The thriller centers around a con artist, Nora, who must use her powers of persuasion and impersonation to get herself, her girlfriend, and ex-boyfriend free during a hostage situation at a bank. [Source: Deadline]
Borrego
Lucy Hale and Nicholas Gonzalez will lead the cast of survival thriller “Borrego” which Jesse Harris will direct from his own script. Hale, who will also executive produce, plays a young botanist who relocates to a small desert town to study an invasive plant species.
She comes to the aid of a downed plane only to find herself taken captive by an inexperienced drug mule who forces her to lead a trek across the desert to his drop. Gonzalez plays a local sheriff drawn into the hunt as his rebellious daughter sets out to find the missing botanist. Leynar Gomez, Jorge A. Jimenez and Olivia Trujillo round out the cast. [Source: THR]
Armageddon Time
Focus Features has closed a worldwide deal for “Ad Astra” and “The Lost City of Z” director James Gray’s coming-of-age film “Armageddon Time” starring Robert De Niro, Oscar Isaac, Donald Sutherland, Anne Hathaway and Cate Blanchett. Gray based the drama on his childhood experiences in a pre-Reagan era America. Production is set to begin in 2021 in New York. [Source: Deadline]
Buzzfeed
BuzzFeed and Lionsgate are teaming up to make “socially relevant and high-concept feature films for Gen Z and millennial audiences”. The pact will see them jointly develop and produce that will boast “unique, primarily digital, distribution strategies”.
Several films are in development, some of which will be based on BuzzFeed intellectual property and will use data from BuzzFeed’s audience-analytics. The first is aiming to launch in 2021. [Source: Variety]
