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Beau Flynn and Basil Iwanyk have nabbed the rights to Samuel Franco and Evan Kilgore’s script “Mayday 109”.
Flynn and Iwanyk will produce the film about “the true story of what happened when the PT boat captained by future president John F Kennedy was smashed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer”.
Kennedy was the commander of a patrol torpedo boat on the prowl for Japanese destroyers in August 1943. After a battle with several Japanese ships, PT 109 was inadvertently rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagin, and that was the beginning of a harrowing week for the future president. Two died in the explosion, and Kennedy gathered the rest of the men — some were burned, others had swallowed fuel-soaked seawater, and two others couldn’t swim — and tried to salvage the ship but could not send rescue flares for fear of drawing the enemy. After the vessel went down, Kennedy organized his men for a three-mile swim to an island. His experience as a Harvard swim team member came in handy as he lugged an injured shipmate kept afloat with a life preserver. After finding the island, Kennedy swam to another island looking for rescuers, nearly drowning on the return leg. He made several harrowing trips before he and his shipmates engaged friendly locals and after scrawling an SOS on a coconut, they were finally located by rescuers (via Deadline).
LAPD thriller “The Shave” is getting the silver screen treatment.
Thomas White and Miles Hubley wrote “The Shave”, which centres on an LAPD officer who has been recently exonerated in the murder of a high school honor student. He visits the boy’s father at his barbershop to tell him his side of the story while receiving a straight razor shave.
Route One Entertainment and Lost City will produce and finance the film with Maiden Voyage.
