Are stories from the radio show really going to be turned into films?
Yes! One already was! Susan Burton’s melancholic essay about being trapped in an airport with her sister at Christmas was turned into a 2006 kids’ comedy Unaccompanied Minors. Others are in the works. Our story about Carlton Pearson is being written by Marcus Hinchey, for director Marc Forster and Endgame Entertainment. Endgame is also developing Wenceslas Square, with a screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely that Phillip Noyce will direct. The cryonics story in Mistakes Were Made is the basis of a screenplay that Zach Helm is adapting for Errol Morris to direct – as a fictionalized feature, not a documentary. We’re working with Steve Zaillian’s company Film Rites, and Mandate Pictures on that. At Fox Searchlight, Joshua Marston is writing a screenplay that he plans to direct, based on the story “Making Money the Old-Fashioned Way.” Elan Mastai is adapting Starlee Kine’s story about breakup songs and Phil Collins for Paramount Pictures. Mike Birbiglia is writing a screenp
