“When you can have everything you could ever dream of, what do you value?” What if you had all the money in the world but refused to spend any? Would you install a payphone at your mansion like J. Paul Getty did? And would your frugality-challenged grandson screw things up by getting involved with very bad…
Like Sony/TriStar’s All the Money in the World, FX’s limited series Trust follows the 1970s Italian kidnapping of scion J. Paul Getty III, but from a completely different perspective.
While the Sony feature follows closely the tick-tock of the junior Getty’s snatching, Trust suggests he might have been involved in his…
Looking to tell the “personal story” of Billie Jean King and self-styled provocateur Bobby Riggs — the participants in 1973’s historic Battle of the Sexes tennis match — directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris had to look no further than the Battle of the Sexes script by Oscar winner Simon Beaufoy, who managed to…
Contemplating their take on the historic “Battle of the Sexes”—the famous 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs—some writers might be inclined to trot out simple displays of athleticism, emphasizing the tug and pull and sheer physicality of the match itself over a more complicated narrative. For…
EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed the illustrious writer-producer Simon Beaufoy, who until several months ago had been repped in the U.S. by the late agent Susan Landau. Beaufoy in the past two decades has won Oscars, Golden Globes, WGA and other awards for such films as The Full Monty, Slumdog Millionaire, The Hunger Games: C…
Slumdog Millionaire scribe Simon Beaufoy is set to adapt a feature film based on Michael Ondaatje's Giller Prize-winning novel In The Skin of A Lion for Serendipity Point Films, Potboiler Productions and Film4.
The story, which will be produced by Serendipity's Robert Lantos and Potboiler's Andrea Calderwood, is an…
It was 1973. We were was waist-deep in Watergate. Spiro Agnew was about to resign. The OPEC-fueled energy crisis loomed. Americans needed a diversion. Enter Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King. Fast-forward nearly half a century, and boy could we use some escapism today.
That said, here’s the first trailer for Battle of t…
The Seventies are big on TV now with HBO's Vinyl and Netflix's upcoming The Get Down and now the Me Decade is coming to FX via Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy and Christian Colson with Trust. The cabler announced today that it has ordered a 10-episode first installment of the limited series about John Paul Getty III, the…
FX has teamed with Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy and Christian Colson — the Oscar-winning director-writer-producer team behind Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours — for a 10-part miniseries. Written by Beaufoy, Telemark is based on the true story of the British-trained Norwegian resistance fighters who sabotaged Hitler’s…
When CBS Films paid a reported $5 million for distribution rights to Salmon Fishing In The Yemenafter its successful world premiere last September at the Toronto Film Festival, the initial thought according to insiders was to try and release it in time for the 2011 awards season. The move that would have made sense…
There are reports today that Lionsgate has started moving on Catching Fire, the second installment of The Hunger Games trilogy, with Simon Beaufoy adapting the Suzanne Collins novel, and Gary Ross returning as director of a film set for release November 22, 2013. Deadline readers might recall we told you all this last…
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate is getting serious about the second installment of The Hunger Games. The mini-major is courting Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire scribe Simon Beaufoy to write Catching Fire, the second installment of the three book series that tracks the life and death adventures of Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawr…
