Exclusive: Aaron Magnani has optioned screen rights to Walker Percy’s New York Times bestseller The Second Coming, with plans to develop the novel for film.
He’s currently in search of a director for the adaptation and will produce via under his Aaron Magnani Productions banner. Peter Arneson adapted the script and will executive produce.
The story centers on a wealthy, suicidal widower who searches for proof of God but finds much more when he meets a young woman fugitive from a mental hospital. Influenced by the real-life suicides of Percy’s father and grandfather and suspected suicide of his mother, the plot combines comedy, tragedy and romance, with themes of alienation and redemption.
“This story is very relatable to the world we have been living in,” said Magnani. “And the adaptation is as much a director’s piece as an actor’s piece and incredible character study.”
Percy...
He’s currently in search of a director for the adaptation and will produce via under his Aaron Magnani Productions banner. Peter Arneson adapted the script and will executive produce.
The story centers on a wealthy, suicidal widower who searches for proof of God but finds much more when he meets a young woman fugitive from a mental hospital. Influenced by the real-life suicides of Percy’s father and grandfather and suspected suicide of his mother, the plot combines comedy, tragedy and romance, with themes of alienation and redemption.
“This story is very relatable to the world we have been living in,” said Magnani. “And the adaptation is as much a director’s piece as an actor’s piece and incredible character study.”
Percy...
- 3/17/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, India Eisley-Mickey River drama “Adolescence” gets distribution and romance “Castle of Water” and horror short “They Hear It” are in development.
Distribution Rights
North of Two has acquired worldwide distribution rights to the dark coming-of-age drama “Adolescence,” starring India Eisley and Mickey River with Ashley Avis directing, Variety has learned exclusively.
The film was produced by Winterstone Pictures and is set to make its festival debut this fall. River portrays a shy teenager who falls in love with a beautiful, enigmatic runaway, played by Eisley, and is lured away from his bland life and into her vibrant and unpredictable world. He slips down a progressively dark path, filled with raging parties, drugs, and eventually heroin addiction.
The cast also includes Romeo Miller, Tommy Flanagan, Elisabeth Rohm, Jere Burns, Ever Carradine, Michael Milford, and Zac Brown Band member John Driskell Hopkins.
The film...
Distribution Rights
North of Two has acquired worldwide distribution rights to the dark coming-of-age drama “Adolescence,” starring India Eisley and Mickey River with Ashley Avis directing, Variety has learned exclusively.
The film was produced by Winterstone Pictures and is set to make its festival debut this fall. River portrays a shy teenager who falls in love with a beautiful, enigmatic runaway, played by Eisley, and is lured away from his bland life and into her vibrant and unpredictable world. He slips down a progressively dark path, filled with raging parties, drugs, and eventually heroin addiction.
The cast also includes Romeo Miller, Tommy Flanagan, Elisabeth Rohm, Jere Burns, Ever Carradine, Michael Milford, and Zac Brown Band member John Driskell Hopkins.
The film...
- 7/10/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Producer Aaron Magnani has acquired screen rights to Castle of Water, the 2017 romantic adventure novel from Dane Huckelbridge. Peter Arneson has adapted the screenplay, and the pic will be produced by Magnani via his Aaron Magnani Productions and executive produced by Brendan Deneen. A search for a director is underway.
The plot centers on two survivors of a plane crash—an American man and a newly widowed French woman—who struggle to live and love while marooned on a tropical island.
“It’s a gripping story of loss, survival and love, full of surprising twists,” Magnani said. “Two characters of different cultures and sensibilities rescue each other, literally and figuratively, in a way unlike any survival tale I’ve come across.”
Magnani was an executive producer on The Last Word, the 2017 Sundance pic starring Shirley MacLaine and Amanda Seyfried; Bleecker Street released it in March 2017. His company is currently...
The plot centers on two survivors of a plane crash—an American man and a newly widowed French woman—who struggle to live and love while marooned on a tropical island.
“It’s a gripping story of loss, survival and love, full of surprising twists,” Magnani said. “Two characters of different cultures and sensibilities rescue each other, literally and figuratively, in a way unlike any survival tale I’ve come across.”
Magnani was an executive producer on The Last Word, the 2017 Sundance pic starring Shirley MacLaine and Amanda Seyfried; Bleecker Street released it in March 2017. His company is currently...
- 7/9/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Producer Aaron Magnani has optioned screen rights to author Cj Cherryh’s sci-fi fantasy quartet "The Morgaine Stories" with plans to turn it into a franchise called "The Gates of Morgaine".
Set in a distant medieval world, the series tells the epic story of an outcast warrior forced to serve a mysterious time-traveling heroine.
Legend says she is evil, but he eventually learns her mission is to save the universe.
Peter Arneson has already penned the screenplay "The Gates of Morgaine: Ivrel" based on the first novel.
Source: Variety...
Set in a distant medieval world, the series tells the epic story of an outcast warrior forced to serve a mysterious time-traveling heroine.
Legend says she is evil, but he eventually learns her mission is to save the universe.
Peter Arneson has already penned the screenplay "The Gates of Morgaine: Ivrel" based on the first novel.
Source: Variety...
- 4/10/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Variety is reporting that producer Aaron Magnani has optioned the rights to C.J. Cherryh.s sci-fi fantasy series "The Morgaine Stories." He's hoping to turn the series into a franchise under the name The Gates of Morgaine . Writer Peter Arneson has already completed the script for the first film, titled The Gates of Morgaine: Ivrel . The series is described as follows: "The epic story of an outcast warrior forced to serve a mysterious time-traveling heroine. Legend says she is evil, but he eventually learns her mission is to save the universe." Check back here for more details on the series as they emerge.
- 4/9/2013
- Comingsoon.net
Jinga Films/Mvd and Gravitas Ventures have announced that they will release Iron Doors on disc and VOD February 19. Directed by Stephen Manuel from a script by Peter Arneson, the movie stars Axel Wedekind as an unnamed investment banker who wakes up locked in a vault, not knowing how he got there or who has kidnapped him, and struggles to survive against starvation. The only announced extra on the DVD is a trailer (which you can check out below), and the retail price is $16.95. See exclusive comments from Manuel and pics from Iron Doors here.
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- 12/20/2012
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
Jinga Films/Mvd and Gravitas Ventures have announced that they will release Iron Doors on disc and VOD February 19. Directed by Stephen Manuel from a script by Peter Arneson, the movie stars Axel Wedekind as an unnamed investment banker who wakes up locked in a vault, not knowing how he got there or who has kidnapped him, and struggles to survive against starvation. The only announced extra on the DVD is a trailer (which you can check out below), and the retail price is $16.95. See exclusive comments from Manuel and pics from Iron Doors here.
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- 12/20/2012
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
Jinga Films/Mvd and Gravitas Ventures have announced that they will release Iron Doors on disc and VOD February 19. Directed by Stephen Manuel from a script by Peter Arneson, the movie stars Axel Wedekind as an unnamed investment banker who wakes up locked in a vault, not knowing how he got there or who has kidnapped him, and struggles to survive against starvation. The only announced extra on the DVD is a trailer (which you can check out below), and the retail price is $16.95. See exclusive comments from Manuel and pics from Iron Doors here.
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- 12/20/2012
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
Jinga Films/Mvd and Gravitas Ventures have announced that they will release Iron Doors on disc and VOD February 19. Directed by Stephen Manuel from a script by Peter Arneson, the movie stars Axel Wedekind as an unnamed investment banker who wakes up locked in a vault, not knowing how he got there or who has kidnapped him, and struggles to survive against starvation. The only announced extra on the DVD is a trailer (which you can check out below), and the retail price is $16.95. See exclusive comments from Manuel and pics from Iron Doors here.
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- 12/20/2012
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
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