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Throughout his long career in doc filmmaking, producer Lawrence Elman has always looked for something unexpected in a new project that can grab his attention, and it was the unique narrative approach of Rainbow Warrior, a new feature documentary that was recently taken to market by Fremantle, that convinced him to board the production.

When filmmaker Edward McGurn presented his pitch about a documentary covering the 1985 sinking of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior by French intelligence agents off the coast of New Zealand, Elman and Docsville Studios were immediately interested. McGurn wanted to structure the film like a thriller, but not like an action-packed James Bond story, Elman says - rather, it was to be more in the vein of The Pink Panther and its bumbling "hero," Inspector Clouseau...

Luc Besson is exec producing a feature documentary exploring the stranger-than-fiction tale of the bombing of the iconic ship Rainbow Warrior, which is in the works with Doscville Studios, GNZ, EuropaCorp and Expanded Media.

National Geographic Channel has greenlit The Long Road Home scripted miniseries, based on Martha Raddatz‘s New York Times bestseller.

Making a movie with Werner Herzog in the jungles of Thailand

Mel Gibson, Oscar-winning screenwriter Robert Towne and Mike Medavoy are teaming on Dancing Bear, an adaptation of the hardboiled crime novel by the late James Crumley that is in the early stages at USA Network though Universal Cable Productions.

The LA-based company has acquired North America and most international rights to the Chilean mine collapse survival story and will channel the US release via its Warner Bros output deal