Charles Darwin movie in the works at Disney
LOS ANGELES — Disney has launched development on a Charles Darwin movie with Stephen Gaghan on board to direct from his own screenplay.
A photograph of Charles Darwin taken around 1874 by Leonard Darwin. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain
LOS ANGELES — Disney has launched development on a Charles Darwin movie with Stephen Gaghan on board to direct from his own screenplay.
The studio acquired an untitled pitch from Gaghan, whose credits include writing the Oscar-winning Traffic and directing Syriana from his own script. Gaghan is in pre-production to direct Black Bear Pictures’ mining drama Gold, starring Matthew McConaughey.
Darwin, the English naturalist and geologist, established that all species of life have descended from common ancestors in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species.
Jeremy Thomas produced a Darwin movie, 2009’s Creation, starring real-life spouses Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany. That film, directed by Jon Amiel, focused on Darwin and his family as he struggled to finish On the Origin of Species.
The screenplay was written by John Collee based on the biography Annie’s Box, written by Randal Keynes, Darwin’s great-great grandson. Creation grossed less than US$1 million (S$1.34 million) worldwide.
Gaghan is repped by CAA and attorney Steve Warren.
The news was first reported by Deadline.com. VARIETY.COM/REUTERS
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