Calgary-based filmmaker Berkley Brady is working on an adaptation of Metis author Maria Campbell’s memoir “Halfbreed.” The book, published in the 1970s, recounts a life of difficulty, struggle and discrimination, but it’s also a testament to the woman who ended up as a “pillar of her indigenous community,” points out Brady.
“We are looking at developing it as a series as well, depending on the interest,” she says.
“My great-uncle, who was an activist, is mentioned in her book. He was her hero. Now, she is mine. That’s why I came back to this part of Canada: I wanted to tell stories locally. It feels like the first time in history I am able to do so, so I am just trying to make the most of the moment.”
Brady will soon premiere her survival thriller “Dark Nature” – TIFF’s selection for the Fantastic 7 showcase at Cannes – at Fantasia,...
“We are looking at developing it as a series as well, depending on the interest,” she says.
“My great-uncle, who was an activist, is mentioned in her book. He was her hero. Now, she is mine. That’s why I came back to this part of Canada: I wanted to tell stories locally. It feels like the first time in history I am able to do so, so I am just trying to make the most of the moment.”
Brady will soon premiere her survival thriller “Dark Nature” – TIFF’s selection for the Fantastic 7 showcase at Cannes – at Fantasia,...
- 7/11/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Warner Bros. has picked up the movie rights to The Tourist, an upcoming book by two-time Edgar Award nominee Olen Steinhauer, for George Clooney and Grant Heslov to produce via their Smoke House banner.
Picked up in early manuscript form, the story is described as being a contemporary international thriller in the vein of John Le Carre and Graham Greene and follows a spy who must risk everything to reveal a conspiracy after he's suspected of a murder he didn't commit.
Sources said the deal was worth in the $350,000 range.
Sarah Schechter will oversee for Warners. Schechter and Warners' New York-based book scout Maria Campbell brought the project to Smoke House vp feature development Nina Wolarsky, who in turn brought it to Clooney and Heslov.
Smoke House is in post on the football movie Leatherheads, which Clooney is directing and Universal is distributing. The company is prepping White Jazz, an adaptation of the James Ellroy novel to be directed by Joe Carnahan, and is developing an adaptation of Beau Willimon's upcoming play Farragut North.
Steinhauer, repped by the Gernert Co., is best known for writing a five-part book series chronicling Cold War Eastern Europe.
Picked up in early manuscript form, the story is described as being a contemporary international thriller in the vein of John Le Carre and Graham Greene and follows a spy who must risk everything to reveal a conspiracy after he's suspected of a murder he didn't commit.
Sources said the deal was worth in the $350,000 range.
Sarah Schechter will oversee for Warners. Schechter and Warners' New York-based book scout Maria Campbell brought the project to Smoke House vp feature development Nina Wolarsky, who in turn brought it to Clooney and Heslov.
Smoke House is in post on the football movie Leatherheads, which Clooney is directing and Universal is distributing. The company is prepping White Jazz, an adaptation of the James Ellroy novel to be directed by Joe Carnahan, and is developing an adaptation of Beau Willimon's upcoming play Farragut North.
Steinhauer, repped by the Gernert Co., is best known for writing a five-part book series chronicling Cold War Eastern Europe.
- 10/12/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Matt Damon and Amanda Peet are headed for Syriana, Warner Bros. Pictures and Section Eight's timely geopolitical thriller tackling oil, international politics and the CIA. Peet is in advanced negotiations to play the wife of Bryan Woodman (Damon), a handsome oil executive who's in major deal-making mode with an oil sheik when he goes through a pivotal family tragedy. His wife, Julie (Peet), works with him to figure it out. George Clooney is in advanced negotiations to play career CIA agent Robert Baer. He's tracking terrorists; the American president declares war. The feature is inspired by real-life CIA agent Robert Baer's memoirs, See No Evil: The True Story of a Foot Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism, which Warners and Section Eight optioned a couple of years ago with the help of Maria Campbell, a consultant to Warners on literary pickups.
- 5/25/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Matt Damon and Amanda Peet are headed for Syriana, Warner Bros. Pictures and Section Eight's timely geopolitical thriller tackling oil, international politics and the CIA. Peet is in advanced negotiations to play the wife of Bryan Woodman (Damon), a handsome oil executive who's in major deal-making mode with an oil sheik when he goes through a pivotal family tragedy. His wife, Julie (Peet), works with him to figure it out. George Clooney is in advanced negotiations to play career CIA agent Robert Baer. He's tracking terrorists; the American president declares war. The feature is inspired by real-life CIA agent Robert Baer's memoirs, See No Evil: The True Story of a Foot Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism, which Warners and Section Eight optioned a couple of years ago with the help of Maria Campbell, a consultant to Warners on literary pickups.
- 5/25/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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