In case you haven't noticed, we're currently in the midst of one of the worst flu seasons in recent memory. We've got the H3N2 main strain, dominating once again after a decade off; some terrible 24-hour stomach thing that has hit the Backstage/THR office pretty hard, and was probably your hangover's best cover story yesterday; and a whooping cough outbreak, because people listen to Jenny McCarthy. But there is another particularly virulent strain, native to Hollywood, that has reared its head once again this year: the copy-cat bug. We have the new "Godzilla" reboot on the heels of "Pacific Rim," two competing JFK pics in "Parkland" and "The Kennedy Detail," two Hercules projects with "Hercules: The Thracian Wars" and "Hercules 3D," and now two comedy Westerns. Wait, what? Yes, it's true. Just last week I told you about Adam Sandler's next film, comedy Western "Ridiculous 6." So here...
- 2/5/2013
- backstage.com
Stephen Gyllenhaal, father of actors Maggie and Jake, is set to write and direct the film "The Kennedy Detail" which explores U.S. President John F. Kennedy's assassination story from a different angle reports If Press.
Gyllenhaal's film, which aims to mark the 50th anniversary of the tragic incident next November, is set to examine the Secret Service personnel assigned to protect the President.
Gyllenhaal is assembling material from both former agent Gerald Blaine's book of the same name, and from recent interviews he did with surviving members of Kennedy's security detail. Shooting kicks off in January...
Gyllenhaal's film, which aims to mark the 50th anniversary of the tragic incident next November, is set to examine the Secret Service personnel assigned to protect the President.
Gyllenhaal is assembling material from both former agent Gerald Blaine's book of the same name, and from recent interviews he did with surviving members of Kennedy's security detail. Shooting kicks off in January...
- 8/28/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
As the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy approaches next year, award-winning director Stephen Gyllenhaal has signed on to the feature film The Kennedy Detail as Screenwriter and Director. The motion picture focuses on the men of the Secret Service protective detail assigned to President John F. Kennedy. The project is targeted for a November, 2013 release, coinciding with the tragic anniversary.
.This is the project of a lifetime and I could not be more excited to be part of it,. said Gyllenhaal. .Everyone knows how this story ends, but the true stories told through the eyes of this extraordinary band of brothers, from JFK.s election to that awful day in Dallas, have never been told. It is time to share their perspective with the world..
Gyllenhaal has begun work on the script with his research including interviews with many of the surviving members of President...
.This is the project of a lifetime and I could not be more excited to be part of it,. said Gyllenhaal. .Everyone knows how this story ends, but the true stories told through the eyes of this extraordinary band of brothers, from JFK.s election to that awful day in Dallas, have never been told. It is time to share their perspective with the world..
Gyllenhaal has begun work on the script with his research including interviews with many of the surviving members of President...
- 8/27/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Next November marks the sad occasion of the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination, an event which still evokes very strong feelings. And of course to commemorate that day the true American way, there's going to be a movie (and probably a number of TV specials and countless reruns of Oliver Stone's "JFK"). And no, we're not talking about "Parkland" which Tom Hanks was recently announced to produce. Instead, it's "The Kennedy Detail," which as the title suggests, at least offers up a different angle on the affair. Based on the New York Times best-selling book by former Secert Service agent Gerald Blaine and award-winning journalist Lisa McCubbin, the film will present events before, during and after the slaying in Dallas through the eyes of the men tasked with protecting the President. It will show a President who enjoyed interacting with audiences, and didn't like to be too closely guarded,...
- 8/27/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Most will only read Stephen Gyllenhaal‘s name and wonder if he’s related to the brother-sister thespians — he’s their father, by the way — so if you can get past that, let me opine that something of interest lies in this news. The frequent TV helmer (known to yours truly for his strong work on Twin Peaks) is, according to Deadline, partnering with Atchity Entertainment International on The Kennedy Detail, a fact-based account of the Secret Service men who worked for none other than John F. Kennedy.
As was the case with its source material — Gerald Blaine and Lisa McCubbin‘s book, itself a series of interviews — Gyllenhaal‘s film will use the actual Secret Service agents as a screenplay “inspiration” of sorts; expect a stricter narrative, though, which will portray the little-seen life of that inner circle. He’s deemed it “the project of a lifetime,” as The Kennedy Detail...
As was the case with its source material — Gerald Blaine and Lisa McCubbin‘s book, itself a series of interviews — Gyllenhaal‘s film will use the actual Secret Service agents as a screenplay “inspiration” of sorts; expect a stricter narrative, though, which will portray the little-seen life of that inner circle. He’s deemed it “the project of a lifetime,” as The Kennedy Detail...
- 8/27/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
The more I think about it, the more I think Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Not so much because I believe the cooked-up testimonials and ballistics of the Warren Commision Report, but because if I can convince myself of the theory of a Lone Gunman, I can cease giving a shit about the whole thing.
All right, so I’m full of shit. Of course I can’t convince myself of the theory of a Lone Gunman. First of all, the words “Dallas, Texas” inherently imply the presence of more than a single manned rifle in any given space. Second, if I have to stop believing in Shadow Government, in a way, I have to start believing in Dick Cheney, and that’s something that I can never allow to happen.
So I will embrace this latest foray into That Fateful Day In Dallas, based upon the book, The Kennedy Detail,...
All right, so I’m full of shit. Of course I can’t convince myself of the theory of a Lone Gunman. First of all, the words “Dallas, Texas” inherently imply the presence of more than a single manned rifle in any given space. Second, if I have to stop believing in Shadow Government, in a way, I have to start believing in Dick Cheney, and that’s something that I can never allow to happen.
So I will embrace this latest foray into That Fateful Day In Dallas, based upon the book, The Kennedy Detail,...
- 4/17/2012
- by Josh Converse
- Boomtron
A new John F Kennedy film has been announced for a 2013 release. Atchity Entertainment and Ramos and Sparks Group have said they will develop a feature film of the Us President based on the 2010 bestselling book The Kennedy Detail by Lisa McCubbin and former Secret Service agent Gerald Blaine, reports Deadline. The companies are planning to debut the new film in late 2013 to mark the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. The Kennedy Detail tells the story of the assassination through the eyes of a member of Kennedy's (more)...
- 4/16/2012
- by By Kristina Bustos
- Digital Spy
The producers of a film planned to coincide with the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination say it will set "the record straight in answer to Olver Stone's fanciful 'JFK.'" Ramos & Sparks Group of Tallahassee, Fla. and Los Angeles-based Atchity Entertainment International announced Monday that they had obtained the rights to "The Kennedy Detail." The book was written by former Secret Service agent Gerald Blaine and journalist Lisa McCubbin. Blaine, part of Kennedy’s security detail, worked with McCubbin to on his first-hand account of serving the president from his election in...
- 4/16/2012
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
Atchity Entertainment and Ramos and Sparks Group announced today they plan to turn former Secret Service agent Gerald Blaine’s bestselling book The Kennedy Detail into a feature film. The plan is for a late 2013 release to coincide with the assassination of Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Blaine’s 2010 book, written with Lisa McCubbin, tells the tale of JFK’s presidency from the perspective of the men who guarded his life while in office and on that day in Dallas. Discovery aired a Martin Sheen-narrated documentary based on The Kennedy Detail on December 2, 2010. The Emmy-nominated doc was executive produced by Ken Atchity and Chi-Li Wong. Blaine and McCubbin served as producers.
- 4/16/2012
- by DOMINIC PATTEN
- Deadline TV
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