wow truth is stranger then Fiction..
congrats on projects Glenn God bless
Tom
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since 1977
On 2022-12-05 08:00, Glenn Taranto wrote:
Bruce -
Thanks so much. I'll go you one slightly better -
STOLEN premiered at the then Leammle Sunset 5 in Hollywood. It ran for
about a week. I was acquainted with Larry who was the house manager at
the time. I asked him if it were possible to have the one sheet that
hung just outside the screening theatre. He said sure. Just come on
the last night for the last screening and he'd let me have it. Not a
problem.
The implausibility of having a movie made from your script is one
thing but for this movie poster collector to have a one sheet with his
Written by credit and name printed on it was a little mind blowing.
I did get the actual poster that hung inside the theatre and it was
framed by none other than our own Sue Heim! How often does a Hollywood
dream become an actual reality? Quite honestly I still get a kick out
of it every time I look at the poster. A poster, which I have to
assume, is kind of rare since the movie came and went after playing in
so few theatres to begin with.
Glenn
On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 3:23 AM Bruce Hershenson
<[email protected]> wrote:
That's a great story, Glenn, on all levels. I would think in today's
world with so much Internet sharing such a strange story could never
again happen, but who knows?
And of course you realized the dream of every film buff, actually
getting a movie made from your writing!
On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 2:40 AM Glenn Taranto
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hello All -
Roughly 20 years ago while I was at the gym getting ready to hit
the treadmill I was looking for something to read as I walked
along. I found a discarded Penny Saver that had an article
regarding a 1957 murder. A boy about 6 years old, who had been
wrapped in a plaid blanket and left in a JC Penny Box, was found
in the woods off Susquehanna Road in Fox Chase, Philadelphia. The
case came to be known as The Boy in the Box. Also America's
Unknown Child.
The police in what seems a macabre idea took photos of the
lifeless body looking as if he were still alive. No one came
forward. No one claimed the body. Nothing. The case went cold.
I was so sad and disheartened. I couldn't believe it. How does
such a thing happen? Why would anyone do this to a poor
defenseless kid?
A few days later as I sat eating in a Baja Fresh, pictures started
flashing across the front of my brain. All these pictures were so
clear and vivid to me the next day I sat down and wrote the first
twelve pages of what would become my first screenplay. Working
backward I devised a story about a present day detective whose son
died of heart disease and how he comes to grips with his own loss
when he investigates a recently unearthed corpse of a boy buried
under a building that's being demolished.
I was so focused it took about two weeks to complete. Then the
real hard work began. Trying to get someone to read the damn
thing. It took another 5 years. Through a series of events actor
turned producer Al Corley read it and liked it. After many
rewrites and a sudden brain storm I knew I finally had something.
While driving up La Cienega passing Wilshire I realized what the
major element missing from the script was. The detective's son
didn't die from heart disease, he was taken at a carnival and
never seen again. Now the discovery of the dead boy is more
visceral. With greater purpose the detective sets out to see if he
can still find the killer.
Hard to believe my very first script got sold and got made
starring a plethora of namey people including Josh Lucas, Jon Hamm
and Jessica Chastain. Both of whom were literally on the cusp of
stardom. Hamm had just wrapped the first season of Mad Men.
The film retitled, STOLEN, unfortunately did poorly. I found
solace in the fact that the check cleared, about a hundred or so
people got work from it and all the major stars were eager to do
the movie upon reading my draft. That was in 2007.
Now, as utterly impossible as it may sound, 65 years after that
little boy was murdered he finally has a name. It will be revealed
this week. Through modern DNA techniques police have figured out
who he was and say that criminal charges could still be filed.
I cannot begin to tell you how thrilled I was to learn all of
this. Not that my script or the movie had anything to do with it.
It's just something I've been carrying around inside for 20 years.
I don't believe in the word closure when it comes to such things.
I doubt the whole story will be told so many years after the fact.
At last that child has a name. And that in and of itself is cause
for a moment of reflective peace and everlasting gratitude.
You can find the recent article I read here:
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/the-boy-in-the-box-americas-unknown-child-philadelphia-police-name/
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Thanks for reading -
Glenn
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