Thunder Road to Produce Basil Iwanyk’s Fox Adapted Movie ‘The Confidence Men’ Based on Margalit Fox’s Nonfiction Book; World War I Tale Follows British POWs Escape from Turkish Camp via Ouija Board

Special: Basil Iwanyk’s Thunder Road Films develops the film by the book reliable guysAward-winning former New York Times journalist Margalit Fox has been named one of the most outstanding prisoner escape stories in history. Fox is adapting the book for his first screenwriting debut, with Ivanik and Erika Lee producing Thunder Road and Esther Hornstein as executive producer.

Published by Random House in 2021; reliable guys This is a World War I story about two British officers who escaped from a remote Turkish POW camp using a Ouija board. Held in an Ottoman prison camp in 1916, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill join forces to destroy their ferocious predators. To escape his despair and boredom, Jones buys a handmade Ouija board and prepares sophisticated sessions for his fellow inmates. The news spreads and one day an Ottoman official approaches Jones and asks: Could Jones have contacted the spirit world to find the huge treasures said to be buried there? Jones, a trained lawyer, and Hill, a brilliant magician, use a keen understanding of the Ouija board and the psychology of deception to set a trap for their invaders that will eventually lead them to their freedom.

A non-fiction thriller filled with high comedy moments, reliable guys It is the story of one of the most famous cheating games for a good cause and the deep friendship between characters from completely different backgrounds: Jones, the son of an Oxford-educated English gentleman, and Hill, an Australian sheep mechanic. Farm. The book was shortlisted by the Mystery Writers of America for the Edgar Allan Poe Oscar Award for Best Writing. Random House will release the title in print on June 7.

Fox is a former senior writer for the New York Times’ celebrity obituary news section. While there, he wrote a page to send to one of the world’s most famous names; His and his friends’ works are summarized. deathVanessa Gould’s acclaimed 2016 documentary Fox is the author of three previous nonfiction books. Conan Doyle for Defense (2018) is currently in development with Gold Circle Entertainment.

Thunder Road Films, founded by producer Iwanyk and co-chaired by Lee, is a behind-the-scenes independent film company grossing more than $3.8 billion worldwide. His upcoming projects include Dev Patel’s directorial debut, a stylized revenge thriller. monkey manand romantic comedy everything comes back to meJoining Priyanka Chopra, Celine Dion and Celine Dion. The company is currently in post-production. john wick 4The action epic of Rick Waugh and Gerard Butler kandaharDirector Mouly Surya Netflix’s Modern Western WarningThe return of the American action movie starring Jessica Alba and John Woo Silent NightStarring Joel Kinnaman. Thunder Road is currently in production john wick SpinoffTV Series, Continent.

Fox is represented at Brockman by Joe Welterre Gersh and Katinka Matson.