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Fox 2000′s Beach Boys Pic Sings New Tune With Deirdre O’Connor Writing

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday May 13, 2013 @ 12:52pm PDTTags: Beach Boys, Big Deals Film, Deidre O'Connor, Fox 2000
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Deirdre O’Connor has been tapped to write the screenplay for Fox 2000‘s movie musical revolving around the catalog of the Beach Boys. O’Connor, who was nominated for a WGA Award for her work on Lifetime’s Five project, has penned a new take on the pic working closely with director Michael Sucsy. There’s not many details on the new version, but I understand O’Connor’s script is different from the Susannah Grant pitch Fox 2000 paid north of $2 million for in October 2010. That logline had the music serving as a backdrop to an original narrative, a la superhit Mamma Mia! The pitch then: “The story takes place in Southern California over a summer in the ’60s. It’s inspired by the sounds of the Beach Boys music and the beach culture of that time.” Craig Zadan, Neil Meron and John Stamos are still producing, having teamed previously on the biographical ABC miniseries The Beach Boys: An American Family. (There is a Beach Boys project out there that takes the biopic track: River Road’s Love And Mercy which company founder Bill Pohlad will direct with Paul Dano playing the young Brian Wilson.) O’Connor, repped by Gersh, previously sold an untitled dramedy project to Paramount with Fake Empire producing.

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River Road Nabs Life Rights To Beach Boy Brian Wilson; Oren Moverman Scripting

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday June 23, 2011 @ 4:12pm PDTTags: Beach Boys, Oren Moverman

River Road Entertainment announced today that it has secured life rights to Beach Boys frontman Brian Wilson as well as his wife Melinda Wilson and is developing a feature film about the singer-songwriter’s wild and sometimes rocky life, during which he … Read More »

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Fox 2000 Wins Beach Boys Musical Pitch For North Of $2 Million

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday October 1, 2010 @ 11:04am PDTTags: Beach Boys, Craig Zadan, Elizabeth Gabler, Fox 2000, John Stamos, Movie Deals, Movies, Neil Meron, Susannah Grant
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE AND UPDATED: Fox 2000 has beat out Universal Pictures by paying north of $2 million for a pitch by Susannah Grant and rights to songs from the Beach Boys song catalogue that will form the basis for … Read More »

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