EXCLUSIVE: House executive producer Katie Jacobs is teaming with Groundswell Productions to adapt Kevin Michael Connolly’s memoir Double Take into a feature film. Jacobs plans to direct the movie, which is now out to writers. Michael London’s Groundswell is financing development. Connolly is a photographer, X-Games ski champion and skateboarder who was born without legs. While traveling in Europe in his early 20s, he began taking photos of people who were staring at him — turning the watchers into the watched. The photos became a traveling exhibit that also has appeared at the Smithsonian. Jacobs, repped by CAA and Management 360, has been with Fox’s House since it began in also is developing Sheila Weller’s novel Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon — And the Journey of a Generation at Sony with Lorenzo DiBonaventura producing. John Sayles is adapting the book for Jacobs to direct.


sounds great
it does sound like a story worth telling. I just hope Jacobs doesn’t ruin this like she ruined House.
I don’t think she ruined House!
Would you believe it? I didn’t find out about working with Groundswell until reading this article today. Working with Katie has been great so far, and she definitely seems to ‘get’ the book in a few others have.
Fingers crossed I get to see a CGI’d legless actor running around on his hands. Hope someone’s up to the task…
maybe james franco?
This is Tod Browning territory, and MGM had the indecency to butcher it then. As much as we want to explore the realms of biogen relationships (why humans stare at deformities), there is nothing really more to discover about human nature, other than explore yet again the triumph of one will against an order of biologically similar beings. Why bother?
I kinda love that John Sayles is going to be writing about Carly Simon and Joni Mitchell.
Like the combination of Katie Jacobs and John Sayles!!