Exclusive: LuckyChap Entertainment and Automatik have teamed with Good Films to option Firefighters, based on Jaime Lowe’s New York Times Magazine article The Incarcerated Women Who Fight California’s Wildfires.
Script will be written by Carly Wray, the Westworld and Mad Men writer/producer who recently was tapped to write one of HBO’s Game of Thrones spinoffs.
Good Films will finance.
The parties took the article off the table in competitive bidding.Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Fred Berger and Rian Cahill will produce for Automatik, and Margot Robbie, Josey McNamara and Tom Ackerley will produce for LuckyChap Entertainment, with Scott Budnick producing through Good Films.
Lowe will serve as executive producer as will Wray.Film is based on the true story of a dozen female prisoners as they move from county jail to life in a Malibu fire camp.
With only three weeks of training, the diverse crew must bind
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