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Relativity Media Taps Sheldon Turner To Script And Maybe Direct ‘Borderland’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday March 12, 2013 @ 12:29pm PDTTags: Borderland, Jennifer Klein, Relativity Media, Sheldon Turner
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Relativity Media has acquired Borderland, a gritty action thriller that Sheldon Turner will write with an eye toward directing. The tone is modern-day Western meets Magnificent Seven; when a resort town is overrun by cartel violence, a newly installed mayor hires a band of ex and current Special Forces operatives to train them to fight back. The border town becomes a battleground and the operatives get in over their heads. The intention is to give an authentic depiction of post-war life for elite soldiers. Jennifer Klein will produce through Vendetta, the production shingle she and Turner set up together.

Turner, Oscar-nominated for co-writing Up In The Air, will work on this as he finalizes plans to make his feature directing debut on Two Minutes To Midnight, a script of his that had originally been set at Fox but which Klein and Turner got back in turnaround. Turner is also attached to helm By Virtue Fall, which is set at QED and has Armie Hammer and Eric Bana attached. Klein is producing both of those pictures as well as Everest, the Turner-scripted film that Doug Liman will direct at Sony with Tom Hardy attached to play George Mallory. Liman’s Hypnotic partner Dave Bartis is also producing and it will be Liman’s next film. READ MORE »

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Doug Liman Scales ‘Everest’ For Sony Pics

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday September 30, 2011 @ 7:40am PDTTags: Doug Liman, Everest, Jennifer Klein, Sheldon Turner, Sony Pictures
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Doug Liman has climbed aboard Everest, a Sony Pictures drama about George Mallory and his three attempts in the early 1920s to become the first man to climb the world’s highest mountain. The film, an adaptation of Jeffrey Archer’s book Paths Of Glory, has a script by Sheldon Turner. Jennifer Klein is producing. Liman has several projects percolating, including Luna, a moon mission film that Paramount Pictures and New Regency are trying to make work, as well as Warner Bros’ Dante Harper-scripted drama All You Need Is Kill. Liman, who directed the action hits The Bourne Identity and Mr. and Mrs. Smith, is himself an avid climber and a fan of the Mallory story. He is in the midst of a deal to supervise the next draft by Turner with the intention to direct a film that is a priority at Sony Pictures. Read More »

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ABC Buys CIA, FBI Drama Projects From ABC Studios

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday September 20, 2011 @ 12:13pm PDTTags: ABC, ABC Studios, Jennifer Klein, Sheldon Turner, Vendetta
Nellie Andreeva

ABC is taking a closer look at the workings of U.S.’ top intelligence agencies with two new drama script buys, Safehouse, and Murder Season. Both shows hail from ABC Studios and studio-based producers: Sheldon Turner and Jennifer Klein and … Read More »

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ABC Buys ‘Jekyll & Hyde’-Inspired Drama Project From Sheldon Turner

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday August 22, 2011 @ 12:10pm PDTTags: ABC, ABC Studios, Jennifer Klein, Sheldon Turner, Vendetta
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic split-personality tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is getting a contemporary interpretation with Hyde, a drama series project from Up In the Air co-writer Sheldon Turner and ABC Studios that has been … Read More »

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Sheldon Turner And Jennifer Klein Launch Prod. Company, Ink Deal With ABC Studios

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday June 27, 2011 @ 3:37pm PDTTags: ABC Studios, By Virtue Fall, Everest, First-Look Deal, Jennifer Klein, Sheldon Turner
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Frequent collaborators Sheldon Turner and Jennifer Klein are launching a company together. The company, Vendetta, will be based at ABC Studios with a first-look deal. Under the two-year pact, Up In the Air co-writer Turner will write one script himself and he and Klein will shepherd projects with other writers. Turner and Klein will executive produce all projects developed under the deal, which sprung from the relationship they developed with ABC and ABC Studios this past development season when the two executive produced a Vice President drama project titled Number Two, which Turner co-wrote with Shaun Cassidy. Turner and Klein are expected to bring a feature mentality to their development and shepherd big-event shows with feature writers.

In addition to Number Two, Turner and Klein have sold together as producers Broken to FX, which Turner wrote; drama Michael Chance to NBC, written by Julie Golden; and half-hour comedy The True Adventures of a Terrible Dater, written by Susan Brightbill. On the feature side, the two are producing the Turner-written By Virtue Fall, which will mark Turner’s directorial debut. The project is currently casting, with Eric Bana, James Spader, Carla Gugino, Ryan Phillippe and Connie Britton already on board. Turner also wrote Sony’s Everest, which is now out to directors. Read More »

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