CAST AWAY Screenwriter goes to New Depths...
July 22nd, 2004
Variety is reporting that vetern screenwriter William Broyles Jr. (APOLLO 13) is in talks with Fox 2000 Pictures to adapt Robert Kurson deep sea adventure book "Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Discovered Hitler's Lost Sub" into a feature film. The story follows the exploits of two wreck divers who in 1991 discovered a sunken German U boat resting deep but alarmingly close to the New Jersey shoreline. The two men, John Chatterton and Rich Kohler, dove to depths approaching 230 feet -- the limits of human endurance -- to solve the mystery of how it wound up there. Both suffered great losses in the course of solving the mystery: One saw his marriage ruined, while both lost several friends who died exploring the wreck.
Broyles has written four of his past five scripts for Fox: 2002's Unfaithful UNFAITHFUL, 2001's PLANET OF THE APES, 2000's CAST AWAY and 1999's ENTRAPMENT. He also wrote the WB's upcoming THE POLAR EXPRESS for Robert Zemeckis, whom he has worked with before.
Source: Variety
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