Fan CastingTruss: 44 Days of Crisis

The True Story of the shortest premiership in British history

by True Events

Story added by sofly on October 22, 2022

How did it all fall apart so fast. How did Liz Truss only manage to serve as prime minister for 44 days before resigning? A behind-the-scenes look at an administration in crisis shows how quickly it all devolved.

Fan CastingIt Happened in Pyongyang

North Korea's Biggest Pro Wrestling Event

by True Story

Story added by sofly on February 4, 2021

In 1994 Antonio Inoki, a Japanese politician and former wrestler, facing allegations of involvement in organized crime, came up with a shocking plan to boost his approval ratings. Host a major wrestling event with Japanese and American talent in the isolated hermit kingdom of North Korea. He contacted WCW head Eric Bischoff who immediately jumped at the opportunity and enlisted his top wrestler...

#history #1990s #northkorea #wrestling #truestory #basedonatruestory #sports #90s #muhammad

Fan CastingMame

by Jerry Herman, Jerome Lawrence, and Robert Edwin Lee

Story added by sofly on December 7, 2020

A revival of the hit 1966 musical. Mame Dennis's eccentric, bohemian lifestyle is interrupted when her late brother's son is entrusted to her care. But rather than adopt to any societal standards about child rearing, money-making and romance - Mame does everything with her own dramatic flair.

#musical #broadway #broadwaymusical #music

Fan CastingBad Blood

Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

by John Carreyrou

Story added by sofly on May 13, 2020

Currently in production now. The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end in the face of pressure and threats from the CEO and her lawyers. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stan...

#comingsoon #inproduction #elizabethholmes #truestory #basedonatruestory #biography #nonfiction #reallife #crime #truecrime

Fan CastingStanley Kubrick's Napoleon

by Stanley Kubrick

Story added by sofly on May 11, 2020

Despite decades of work, Stanley Kubrick was never able to get his dream project, a film about the life of famous French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, off the ground. However Kubrick's good friend and fellow director Steven Spielberg has announced his intention to make Kubrick's dream a reality. If Spielberg is successful in this endeavor (which I think shouldn't be a problem for him with how suc...

#kubrick #stanleykubrick #history #historical #france #napoleon #napoleonbonaparte #stevenspielberg #spielberg #dreamproject

Fan CastingAmerican Crime Story: The United States vs. Julius & Ethel Rosenberg

by Real Life

Story added by sofly on January 25, 2020

Season of American Crime Story following the trial and subsequent execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg two american citizens who were convicted of providing top secret information about America's nuclear program to the Soviet Union. The case sparked international outrage at the time as many accused the charges levied at the Rosenbergs as being anti-semitically motivated. Years after their ex...

#americancrimestory #1950s #crime #espionage #treason #coldwar #trial #wrongfulconviction #america

Fan CastingFunny Face: Broadway Version

A Broadway stage adaption of the 1957 musical film Funny Face

by Stanley Donen

Story added by sofly on January 9, 2020

Dispatched on an assignment, New York City-based fashion photographer Dick Avery is struck by the beauty of Jo Stockton, a shy bookstore employee he's photographed by accident, who he believes has the potential to become a successful model. He gets Jo to go with him to France, where he snaps more pictures of her against iconic Parisian backdrops. In the process, they fall for one another, only ...

#musical #comedy #broadway #stage #1950s #audreyhepburn #fredastaire #fashion

Fan CastingThe Price of Salt (1957)

What if Carol was made in the 50s?

by Patricia Highsmith

Story added by sofly on January 3, 2020

What if Patricia Highsmith's lesbian romance novel was made into a film only a few years after it came out. What if that film somehow wasn't censored by the Hays Code and followed the plot of the novel very closely? What would it be like?

#lesbian #lgbt #1950s #50s

Fan CastingA Chorus Line Live!

by Marvin Hamlisch, Edward Kleban, James Kirkwood Jr., and Nicholas Dante

Story added by sofly on November 7, 2019

A Chorus Line examines one day in the lives of seventeen dancers, all vying for a spot in the “chorus line” of a Broadway musical. After the first round of cuts, Zach, the director and choreographer, asks each dancer to speak about themselves. Discomfort opens into revelation, confession leads to redemption, and within the bright, outwardly homogenous chorus, the audience begins to see each dan...

#musical #live #livemusical #1970s #70s #lgbt #gay #dance #ark

Fan CastingGypsy

A Musical Fable

by Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim, and Arthur Laurents

Story added by sofly on October 26, 2019

Speculated by many (including NY Times critic Ben Brantley) to be the greatest of all American musicals, Gypsy tells the story of the dreams and efforts of one hungry, powerhouse of a woman to get her two daughters into show business. Indomitable stage mother Rose chases vicarious success and stardom as she pushes her daughters through the vaudeville circuit. When Baby June flees the act to elo...

#musical #broadway