Remember the classic TV show "Soul Train?" Well, Warner Bros. has just hired Malcolm Spellman to write a big screen adaptation!
Don Cornelius, the host and producer of the TV show, will co-produce along with Darryl Porter and Aaron Geller of Porter/Geller Productions.
Spellman's take on the project? He's writing a film set in the 1980s!
He tells Variety:
"All of the hip-hop street dances you see today were born during that time period and were first seen on that show, and I remember doing all of them when I was a kid."
Wow, the big screen version of "Soul Train" sounds like "Breakin'" and "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo!"
According to Spellman, the plot revolves around our hero who comes from the L.A. hood, and his dancing prowess (he's good at "popping") will be his ticket out of the ghetto and into the spotlight.
Spellman further says, "This guy is a serious popper,...
Don Cornelius, the host and producer of the TV show, will co-produce along with Darryl Porter and Aaron Geller of Porter/Geller Productions.
Spellman's take on the project? He's writing a film set in the 1980s!
He tells Variety:
"All of the hip-hop street dances you see today were born during that time period and were first seen on that show, and I remember doing all of them when I was a kid."
Wow, the big screen version of "Soul Train" sounds like "Breakin'" and "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo!"
According to Spellman, the plot revolves around our hero who comes from the L.A. hood, and his dancing prowess (he's good at "popping") will be his ticket out of the ghetto and into the spotlight.
Spellman further says, "This guy is a serious popper,...
- 8/26/2009
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Warner Bros. has hired Malcolm Spellman to write a feature based on the classic TV show "Soul Train."According to Variety, Darryl Porter and Aaron Geller of Porter/Geller Prods. will produce with Don Cornelius, the host and producer of the famed show, which ran from 1971-2006.Spellman said that he's writing a film set in the 1980s.The film will center on a young man who comes from the L.A. hood, and his ticket out is his gift for "popping," a street dance that became popular in the period. Cornelius told Spellman he'd always wanted to mount a tour with bands and dancers, and the writer will make that fictional tour a centerpiece of the film.
- 8/26/2009
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
Warner Bros is to turn long-running TV series Soul Train into a movie. The studio has tapped Malcolm Spellman (Dead Presidents) to write the script. Darryl Porter, Aaron Geller and Don Cornelius, who hosted the show from 1971 to 1993, are on board as producers. Soul Train featured performances from R&B, soul and hip hop artists. The show came to an end in 2006 after 1,117 episodes. (more)...
- 8/26/2009
- by By Simon Reynolds
- Digital Spy
Malcolm Spellman ( Dead Presidents ) will write a Warner Bros. feature based on the classic TV show "Soul Train." Darryl Porter and Aaron Geller of Porter/Geller Productions will produce with Don Cornelius, the host and producer of the famed show, which ran from 1971-2006. Spellman said that he's writing a film set in the 1980s. The film centers on a guy who comes from the L.A. hood, and his ticket out is his gift for "popping," a street dance that became popular in the period.
- 8/25/2009
- Comingsoon.net
Hilary Swank and her producing partner Molly Smith have picked up the rights to the best-seller "French Women Don't Get Fat," setting Heather Hach to adapt.
Swank, who is eyeing the project as a potential starring vehicle, and Smith will produce via their recently formed Alcon Entertainment-based 2S Films, along with Aaron Geller and Darryl Porter of PorterGeller Entertainment.
"Women," written by former Veuve Clicquot champagne executive Mireille Guiliano, was a domestic and international sensation when it was first published in 2004. The nonfiction, lifestyle book offered insight on how French women manage to stay slim despite enjoying such calorie-rich fare as wine and pastries. The book sold more than 1 million copies, reached No. 1 on the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list and was translated into 40 languages. Mireille became a fixture on TV, appearing on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," morning news shows and other programs around the world.
2S and PorterGeller, with Hach, are developing the project as a romantic comedy following a "girl-next-door champagne company middle manager who learns some tough life lessons which help her become the woman she's always wanted to be," the companies said.
Developing features around nonfiction book titles or concepts isn't new. New Line has "He's Just Not That Into You," an adaptation of the dating lifestyle tome by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo.
Swank and Smith also are developing "Falling Out of Fashion" and "You're Not You." Porter and Geller are developing a buddy-action comedy based on the TV series "Soul Train" for Warner Bros. with the show's creator, Don Cornelius, as well as a biopic on the life and music of Miles Davis, which has Don Cheadle is attached to star and direct.
Hach wrote 2003's "Freaky Friday" as well as "Legally Blonde: The Musical," and is penning a sequel to the novel "Freaky Friday" with the original writer Mary Rodgers. She is repped by Fuse Entertainment.
Swank, who is eyeing the project as a potential starring vehicle, and Smith will produce via their recently formed Alcon Entertainment-based 2S Films, along with Aaron Geller and Darryl Porter of PorterGeller Entertainment.
"Women," written by former Veuve Clicquot champagne executive Mireille Guiliano, was a domestic and international sensation when it was first published in 2004. The nonfiction, lifestyle book offered insight on how French women manage to stay slim despite enjoying such calorie-rich fare as wine and pastries. The book sold more than 1 million copies, reached No. 1 on the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list and was translated into 40 languages. Mireille became a fixture on TV, appearing on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," morning news shows and other programs around the world.
2S and PorterGeller, with Hach, are developing the project as a romantic comedy following a "girl-next-door champagne company middle manager who learns some tough life lessons which help her become the woman she's always wanted to be," the companies said.
Developing features around nonfiction book titles or concepts isn't new. New Line has "He's Just Not That Into You," an adaptation of the dating lifestyle tome by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo.
Swank and Smith also are developing "Falling Out of Fashion" and "You're Not You." Porter and Geller are developing a buddy-action comedy based on the TV series "Soul Train" for Warner Bros. with the show's creator, Don Cornelius, as well as a biopic on the life and music of Miles Davis, which has Don Cheadle is attached to star and direct.
Hach wrote 2003's "Freaky Friday" as well as "Legally Blonde: The Musical," and is penning a sequel to the novel "Freaky Friday" with the original writer Mary Rodgers. She is repped by Fuse Entertainment.
- 8/12/2008
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Scribe Daniel Waters has been tapped to adapt Lindsay Moran's memoir Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy for Paramount Vantage.
Additionally, he is developing his first TV project, Earthlings, for Sci Fi Channel, with producers Aaron Craig Geller, Darryl Porter and Fox Television Studios.
Meanwhile, Geller and Porter's newly formed production company, PorterGeller Entertainment, has signed a first-look development deal with FtvS to develop scripted programming.
Blowing My Cover tells the story of Moran, who, a few years out of Harvard and fresh from a Fulbright scholarship in Bulgaria, decided to follow her childhood dream of becoming a spy. But far from being a female James Bond, Moran discovered that the life was more isolating than anything else, with her not able to tell even her closest confidants or boyfriends what she did for a living.
Karen Tenkhoff (The Motorcycle Diaries) is producing. Amy Israel and Jeff Steer are overseeing at Vantage.
Earthlings, described as a darker and subversive successor to such shows as Mork & Mindy or 3rd Rock From the Sun, follows three aliens on Earth who try to save the planet but are continually vexed by humankind's irrational behavior, which seems to find ways to defeat their good intentions.The project is being developed as a 90-minute pilot.
Additionally, he is developing his first TV project, Earthlings, for Sci Fi Channel, with producers Aaron Craig Geller, Darryl Porter and Fox Television Studios.
Meanwhile, Geller and Porter's newly formed production company, PorterGeller Entertainment, has signed a first-look development deal with FtvS to develop scripted programming.
Blowing My Cover tells the story of Moran, who, a few years out of Harvard and fresh from a Fulbright scholarship in Bulgaria, decided to follow her childhood dream of becoming a spy. But far from being a female James Bond, Moran discovered that the life was more isolating than anything else, with her not able to tell even her closest confidants or boyfriends what she did for a living.
Karen Tenkhoff (The Motorcycle Diaries) is producing. Amy Israel and Jeff Steer are overseeing at Vantage.
Earthlings, described as a darker and subversive successor to such shows as Mork & Mindy or 3rd Rock From the Sun, follows three aliens on Earth who try to save the planet but are continually vexed by humankind's irrational behavior, which seems to find ways to defeat their good intentions.The project is being developed as a 90-minute pilot.
- 10/11/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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