Pastor Mick Fleming – a former drug dealer who found God and set up a church that would one day be visited by Prince William and his wife Catherine – is set to be the subject of a new drama series called “The Pastor,” Variety can exclusively reveal.
Herd have optioned Fleming’s life rights.
“Top Boy” director Brady Hood is already in talks to helm the project, which is set to shoot in the U.K. and Portugal, while Andrew Knott and William Ash (“Twisting My Melon”) have signed on to write the screenplay.
Herd will oversee the shoot in the U.K. while their production partner Moviebox will oversee Portugal.
Fleming shot to fame in December 2020 when he became the subject of a BBC News report that was watched by 50 million people. In the throes of the pandemic Fleming, a former drug dealer, set up a church and project that included delivering food,...
Herd have optioned Fleming’s life rights.
“Top Boy” director Brady Hood is already in talks to helm the project, which is set to shoot in the U.K. and Portugal, while Andrew Knott and William Ash (“Twisting My Melon”) have signed on to write the screenplay.
Herd will oversee the shoot in the U.K. while their production partner Moviebox will oversee Portugal.
Fleming shot to fame in December 2020 when he became the subject of a BBC News report that was watched by 50 million people. In the throes of the pandemic Fleming, a former drug dealer, set up a church and project that included delivering food,...
- 9/7/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Plus… Broad Green Pictures strikes first-look deal with Storyscape Entertainment; Fathom Events plots one-day theatrical release for The Pastor.The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 star Josh Hutcherson has teamed up with Indigenous Media’s Jon Avnet, Rodrigo Garcia and Jake Avnet on an incubator powered by The Black List to produce and distribute multi-platform content worldwide.
Hutcherson will collaborate through his Turkeyfoot Productions to discover alongside Michelle Hutcherson up to five screenplays that feature core characters in their late teens to late-20s.
Indigenous Media has committed $100,000 to fund shorts based on the selected screenplays – one of which Hutcherson will direct – and may potentially fund and produce feature-length version based on the shorts.Ingenious plans to launch four incubators.
Broad Green Pictures has signed a first-look deal with Bob Cooper and Richard Saperstein’s new production company Storyscape Entertainment. The deal includes physical and financial production resources. Cooper served as president of production at DreamWorks...
Hutcherson will collaborate through his Turkeyfoot Productions to discover alongside Michelle Hutcherson up to five screenplays that feature core characters in their late teens to late-20s.
Indigenous Media has committed $100,000 to fund shorts based on the selected screenplays – one of which Hutcherson will direct – and may potentially fund and produce feature-length version based on the shorts.Ingenious plans to launch four incubators.
Broad Green Pictures has signed a first-look deal with Bob Cooper and Richard Saperstein’s new production company Storyscape Entertainment. The deal includes physical and financial production resources. Cooper served as president of production at DreamWorks...
- 11/17/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Plus… Broad Green Pictures strikes first-look deal with Storyscape Entertainment; Fathom Events plots one-day theatrical release for The Pastor.The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 star Josh Hutcherson has teamed up with Indigenous Media’s Jon Avnet, Rodrigo Garcia and Jake Avnet on an incubator powered by The Black List to produce and distribute multi-platform content worldwide.
Hutcherson will collaborate through his Turkeyfoot Productions to discover alongside Michelle Hutcherson up to five screenplays that feature core characters in their late teens to late-20s.
Indigenous Media has committed $100,000 to fund shorts based on the selected screenplays – one of which Hutcherson will direct – and may potentially fund and produce feature-length version based on the shorts.Ingenious plans to launch four incubators.
Broad Green Pictures has signed a first-look deal with Bob Cooper and Richard Saperstein’s new production company Storyscape Entertainment. The deal includes physical and financial production resources. Cooper served as president of production at DreamWorks...
Hutcherson will collaborate through his Turkeyfoot Productions to discover alongside Michelle Hutcherson up to five screenplays that feature core characters in their late teens to late-20s.
Indigenous Media has committed $100,000 to fund shorts based on the selected screenplays – one of which Hutcherson will direct – and may potentially fund and produce feature-length version based on the shorts.Ingenious plans to launch four incubators.
Broad Green Pictures has signed a first-look deal with Bob Cooper and Richard Saperstein’s new production company Storyscape Entertainment. The deal includes physical and financial production resources. Cooper served as president of production at DreamWorks...
- 11/17/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
New York writer-director Deborah Goodwin is following up her UK debut "Vampires In Venice" with Brooklyn gang drama "The Pastor," which just began filming in Brooklyn. Goodwin wrote the film from a story by Arturo Muyshondt about a paroled former gang leader (Muyshondt) who tries to rebuild a church in Hispanic gang territory in Brooklyn. He wants to establish a green zone to curb gang violence in the community, but he is met with resistance from rival gang leaders who threaten him and his family. He struggles to hang on to his faith as he fights against his own violent instincts. He doesn't want to become a killer again. The film is financed and produced by short filmmaker and actor turned Miami investment banker Muyshondt's WolfGang Cinema, a film production company which backs cross-cultural films for multicultural audiences. Wgc has also developed and will finance and produce Goodwin's next feature,...
- 5/10/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
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