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 SNOWBOUND
A matriarch and a
patriarch embittered by a lifetime of antipathy. An
older son with a failing career and a wife whose
hostility has driven a wedge between him and his
siblings. A younger son whose increasing distance,
during college, has called into question his identity
and the secrets that he has been keeping. A daughter
whose unexpected pregnancy has turned her life
upside-down.
Gathering for
Thanksgiving at their home in rural Montana, the
family begins the holiday on the brink of a breaking
point.
But as strained
nerves and tempers threaten to push each of them to a
over the edge, a sudden power outage in the midst of a
punishing blizzard seals the entire family in a
claustrophobic pressure cooker. The snow piles up, and
the food and emergency supplies dwindle, while the
family must come to a reckoning with a frightening new
realization: the electricity is may not be coming
back.
Faced with a
dangerously unraveling situation, the
formerly-estranged family must confront their pasts
and come together to fight for their very survival.
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PAST PRAISE FOR EVAN KILGORE:
"Kilgore is a
persuasive writer with a stark, stripped-down style:
we believe the story because he sells it to us."
- Booklist
"Kilgore is able
to elevate the mundane thriller into a work of
thoughtful activity that forces the reader to examine
it form all directions."
- Barb Radmore, Front Street Reviews
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF FIFA
Network:
FX
Networks
Studio: ITV Studios America
Directed
by: Peter
Landesman
Produced by: Tony Krantz (Flame
Ventures)
Executive
Producers: Peter Landesman, Samuel Franco
& Evan Kilgore
Written
& Created by: Samuel Franco & Evan
Kilgore
Based on the
best-selling book by David Conn, The Fall of
the House of FIFA is a limited television
series in the tonal vein of films such as The Big
Short and television shows such as House
of Cards that pulls back the curtain on the
salacious and unbelievable true story of rampant
corruption throughout the governing body behind the
world's most popular sport.
A globe-trotting
ensemble tale of greed, ambition, idealism, and deceit
follows a whistle-blower in Australia, an ambitious
but compromise Trinidadian soccer executive, a sleazy
American huckster, a dogged journalist with nothing to
lose, and a rising young soccer player whose life and
dreams are thrown into tragedy and turmoil by the
betrayal of his superiors.
Billions of
dollars change hands. Elections and entire governments
are reshaped. Bribery, larceny, embezzlement, and
murder form the pillars behind this incredible,
unbelievable true story.
Check back
here for more updates on the development of this
limited series soon.
KEEPER OF THE DIARY
Cast:
Kenneth Branagh (Otto Frank)
Directed by: Reed Morano
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Produced by: Matti Leshem, Lynn Harris
(Weimaraner Republic)
Otto Frank returns
from Auschwitz to a shattered life and the wrenching
loss of his wife and daughters. Among the meager
possessions salvaged by devoted family friend Miep
Gies is a small, cloth-bound, checkered book that
contains the voice, the spirit, and the life of his
daughter: Anne Frank.
Hers is a bright,
optimistic perspective that the world, still grappling
with the unthinkable atrocities committed by the Nazis
and the staggering loss off life sustained during the
War, sorely needs - but in attempting to secure
publication of the Diary, Otto faces an immense
struggle against suspicion, skepticism, and
indifference around the world.
Junior editor
Barbara Zimmerman, fresh out of the typing pool at
Doubleday & Co. in New York, becomes his sole ally
in a passionate crusade to ensure that the tender,
inspiring, uplifting voice of Anne Frank is never lost
or forgotten.
Fox Searchlight
Pictures won the aggressive bidding war for Franco
& Kilgore's script, Keeper of the Diary,
in January, 2017. Lynn Harris and Matti Leshem will
produce the film under their Weimaraner Republic
Pictures banner.
Check back
here for more updates on the film's production
progress soon.
2017 Honoree: The
Black List |
The Black List
2017 Honoree: The Hit List
| The
Tracking Board
IN THE NEWS:
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Kenneth
Branagh to Direct and Star in KEEPER OF THE
DIARY
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Final Draft Franco & Kilgore Interview about
KEEPER OF THE DIARY
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KEEPER OF THE DIARY on Deadline.com
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KEEPER OF THE DIARY at Vanity Fair
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Out KEEPER OF THE DIARY on the Tracking Board's
Hit List
MAYDAY 109
Cast:
Ansel Elgort (John F. Kennedy)
Produced by: Basil
Iwanyk (Thunder Road Pictures), Beau Flynn (Flynn
Picture Co.), Ansel Elgort
Decades before he
would be elected President of the United States, John
F. Kennedy, an illness-prone young Harvard graduate,
enlisted in the United States Navy during World War II
to prove to his father that he could live up to the
illustrious Kennedy name.
On his first
active-duty mission, captaining American PT Boat 109
in the South Pacific, Kennedy's boat was rammed and
sliced in half by a Japanese destroyer, plunging the
25-year-old into a desperate struggle to escort his
crew to safety, and survive.
Evan Kilgore and
Samuel Franco penned the feature screenplay, Mayday
109, after extensive research on this
astounding and largely-unknown true survival story, in
essence the "origin" of the man the world knows as
JFK.
The project lit
up the Hollywood spec market in the summer of 2015
before it was competitively acquired by producer Basil
Iwanyk's Thunder Road Pictures and Beau Flynn's
FlynnPictureCo. It is currently in the early stages of
pre-production.
Check back here
for more updates on the film's production progress
soon.
2015 Honoree: The Black List
| The Black
List
2015 Honoree: The Hit List
| The
Tracking Board
2015 Honoree: The Young
& Hungry List | The
Tracking Board
IN THE NEWS:
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MAYDAY 109's Black List Entry in The Wrap
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MAYDAY 109's Black List Entry in Variety
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MAYDAY 109 on Deadline.com
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MAYDAY 109 in Variety
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MAYDAY 109 on The Tracking Board's Young &
Hungry List
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MAYDAY 109 on The Tracking Board's Hit List
 THE LAST MARCH OF NINE
On a family
vacation, Cleo's life is thrown into upheaval when her
older sister, Angela, vanishes. More than ten years
later, Angela reappears, irreparably changed.
As Cleo struggles
to uncover the truth of what happened, she begins to
confront truths about herself and the arrogant yet
insecure genius, Jamus March, who took her sister. How
far will he go to ensure the dissolution of free will
for his own selfish purposes, or has it already gone
too far? And why can't Cleo shake the idea that she
should have been the one to disappear?
As seemingly
everyone around her begins to behave in the same
peculiar way, Cleo must risk her life in a high-stakes
race against time to finally save her sister, and
ultimately them both, before it is too late.
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FROM THE CRITICS:
"Total suspension
of disbelief!"
- Jennifer Jordan,
Editor of UNCAGE ME and EXPLETIVE DELETED
MADE IN CHINA
Treading water as
a dead-end trainer at the YMCA in Santa Monica,
California, John Grant can hardly compete with ex-wife
Lynn when it comes to their son. Like any
six-year-old, Connor loves toys, and Lynn works for
the second largest toy company in the world. When
Connor is invited to a friend's birthday party, he
brings along the latest pre-release model of an highly
anticipated next-gen action figure, set to come out at
Christmas.
Two days later, all of the children from the party are
in a coma with their parents in a panic. Is it some
kind of outbreak?
With Connor's health deteriorating fast, and his
doctors at a loss to explain what is wrong with him,
John alone plunges into a desperate search for
answers. His journey takes him to China and what he
uncovers may be the deadliest terrorist attack in
history - unless he can stop it.
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FROM THE
CRITICS:
"Kilgore taps
into every parent's fear. A terrifying journey of
desperation that will be sure to keep you up late into
the night."
- Brett Battles, Author of SICK:
Project Eden No. 1
"A riveting,
real-world ticking-clock page turner - Don't miss it!"
- Carl Ellsworth, Screenwriter of RED
EYE and DISTURBIA
BUTTERFLIES OF BILL BAKER
Screenplay by Sania Jhankar & Evan Kilgore
Bill Baker, a
kind, sensitive and content man, enjoys life's simple
pleasures, such as tilling his garden or playing with
butterflies.
His seemingly
fulfilled life is disrupted by Pavornocturnus, a
night terror disorder that causes Bill to commit
violent acts while asleep. His disorder can only be
relieved with a unique, dangerous, and mind-altering
technology.
After a
particularly disastrous episode, Bill's loving wife,
Emma, leaves him, shattering his perfect world. Now
Bill is only left with his best friend and trusted
colleague, Mac, and the faint hope that one day, Emma
will return, until he meets Annie, a 10-year old girl
who brings laughter and excitement back to his life.
Official
Selection - Manhattan Film Festival
Official
Selection - Brooklyn Girl Film Festival
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FROM THE CRITICS:
"Butterflies
of Bill Baker satisfies by warming you up and
then hitting you hard with questions that buzz around
in your head. A rewarding watch."
- The Movie Waffler
"An
entertainingly understated film."
- Unreal TV
THE CHILDREN OF BLACK VALLEY
Twelve years ago, the disappearance of Sam's first son
tore his marriage apart and left his life in a
decades-long holding pattern. Now, raising Daniel, a
second son who never knew his brother, Sam is at last
on the brink of putting it all behind him when he is
rocked to the core by the unthinkable:
It happens again.
With Daniel gone, Sam is flung into a desperate
journey to rescue his son and uncover the truth behind
a decade of pain. What he finds is a string of dark
truths that span a generation and lead him across the
world to an abandoned nuclear silo in the heart of a
blighted jungle in Africa.There, what he learns will
change his life forever.
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FROM THE CRITICS:
"[A] story that
readers will literally not be able to put down...the
adrenaline-fueled pacing and ominous tone...will have
readers predicting some kind of psychological suspense
or crime fiction thriller...but then [the] allusions
to illegal medical experiments on humans, mass
killings, an abandoned nuclear missile silo in the
jungles of Africa and unlocking the very secrets of
immortality itself give the story a decidedly science
fiction feel a la Crichton's "The Andromeda Strain."
Dread-inspiring imagery from Sam's mysterious
childhood, specifically a looming dark tower, gives the
whole work an undertone of apocalyptic horror...This
novel [has] a uniqueness that will keep readers
guessing until literally the very last pages."
- The Chicago Tribune
"The speed and
chaos...[and] smash-mouthed ferocity of a Bruce Willis
epic...[with] a crash-bang finale...Every road taken
is the scariest. Kilgore...has a...career ahead of him
writing action films. Nuke the popcorn."
- Kirkus Reviews
"Kilgore writes
with a maturity that should put his age at about 85,
trust me, he's nowhere near that age...[T]his is a one
sitting book. It will put hooks into you and not let
go till you finish."
- Crimespree Magazine
"The promise
[Kilgore] showed in his first book has come to
shine...[U]nique as Who is Shaya Hacker...[with] a
nice rapid rhythm that careens from beginning to end."
- Barb Radmore, Front Street Reviews
"Shocking and
haunting."
- Internet Book Database
"Definitely
different and...well done."
- Bookbitch.com
WHO IS SHAYLA HACKER
A lonely man in a large city dials a random phone
number and is confronted with a desperate cry for
help.
A 17-year-old-small-town-girl is abandoned by her
older brother. A man flees on the eve of his wedding,
in pursuit of a woman he's never met--but whose
photograph is hauntingly familiar.
A detective discovers an unsolved case in the back of
his files.
A blue-collar contractor uncovers a mysterious box
behind some drywall in an airport.
Separated by a continent, they are bound by a question
- Who is Shayla Hacker?
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FROM THE CRITICS:
"Twin Peaks meets
The Da Vinci Code in this surpassingly weird debut."
- Kirkus Reviews
"Evan Kilgore's
debut novel is an amazing piece of work. From the fist
few lines it feels like something a little different,
something special. Kilgore has a wonderful ability to
draw in the reader...The characters are people that
you are instantly interested in and care about, and
the way they keep circling each other is pure genius,
like a avant-garde ballet choreographed by a genius
madman. The descriptions in the book took me to the
place the characters went and are still in my head.
This book is going to stay with me for some time to
come."
- Crimespree Magazine
"This is one of
those novels that is better than its summaries make it
sound. Kilgore is a persuasive writer with a stark,
stripped-down style: we believe the story because he
sells it to us. Balancing always on the edge of
surrealism, the novel is a kind of existential
thriller, an exploration of what makes a person whole,
posing as a story about a bunch of people looking for
a mysterious woman. Intriguing stuff."
- Booklist
"After the first
couple pages the hook has been set, the other books
get set aside. The fascinating plot premise evolves as
5 different people, in different parts of the country,
for different reasons, become obsessed with a girl
they have never met...[I was] up late into the night,
not able to put the book down...As a mix of mystery,
thriller, sci fi and adventure, Evan Kilgore seems to
be creating a new genre...Kilgore is able to elevate
the mundane thriller into a work of thoughtful
activity that forces the reader to examine it form all
directions. The writing maintains the pace of the
story without letting the suspense fade throughout."
- Barb Radmore, Front Street Reviews
"A strange
journey in a book I personally found fascinating...
Unusual and very enjoyable...Thanks for a great read."
- Bookbitch.com
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