Wonderfilm Media to Adapt Marshall Terrill’s Biography of Hollywood Legend Steve McQueen into a Feature Film
September 09 2019 - 8:19AM
via NEWMEDIAWIRE -- The Wonderfilm Media Corporation (TSXV: WNDR)
(OTC: WDRFF), (“Wonderfilm” or the “Company”), a leading
entertainment company with offices in Beverly Hills, United States
and Vancouver, Canada, has acquired Marshall Terrill’s 2010
biography Steve McQueen: The Life and Legend of a Hollywood
Icon, which it is adapting into a feature film.
Terrill spent 10 years doing research for the
book, which follows the actor’s life from humble beginnings in the
Midwest to the pinnacle of Hollywood and ultimately to his untimely
death at the age of 50 in Mexico.
McQueen was known as cinema’s "King of Cool" and
was a box-office champ of the 1960s and '70s, starring in such
classics as The Magnificent Seven, The Great
Escape, The Sand Pebbles, The Thomas Crown
Affair, Bullitt, The
Getaway, Papillon and The Towering Inferno.
Over the years, Terrill’s book has drawn the
attention of top directors such as James
Gray and Steven Soderbergh and A-list actors
like Ryan Gosling, Jeremy Renner and Channing
Tatum.
Wonderfilm’s Jeff Bowler, Bret
Saxon and Dan Grodnik will produce, with Terrill
serving as an executive producer and creative
consultant. Mitchell Welch also will exec produce.
The biopic will also chart the unlikely
intersection between McQueen and Charles Manson (McQueen
is a character in Quentin Tarantino’s Manson murders
interpretation Once Upon a Time in Hollywood).
"When I found out from Marshall’s incredibly
researched and thorough book that McQueen was supposed to be at
the Sharon Tate house the night of the Manson murders, I
was instantly engaged in that story thread," said Bowler. "I think
we’ve found a fascinating way into the story of an incredible
legend."
According to Terrill’s book, Manson pitched a
screenplay to McQueen that was rejected, putting McQueen at the top
of a written kill list that Manson Family member Susan
Atkins admitted to while incarcerated. Wonderfilm, the company
behind the upcoming Thomas Jane-Anne
Heche actioner Salvage, is fully financing the film.
About Wonderfilm MediaWonderfilm is a
leading publicly traded (TSX Venture Exchange) entertainment
company with offices in Beverly Hills, Vancouver, Canada and Seoul,
South Korea. Wonderfilm’s main business is the production of
high-quality feature films and episodic television that offer
international appeal through the Company’s guiding philosophy of
bringing new financing solutions to an entertainment industry
increasingly looking for funding and co-production alternatives.
Wonderfilm is a producer and distributor only for the projects
disclosed. The legal ownership of movie productions is held in a
special purpose legal entity held at arm’s length to the Company to
facilitate for the qualification of various levels of domestic and
foreign government tax credit incentives that are customary in the
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