A Deal in the Making Mel Gibson set off a flurry of rights interest when it was announced about a month ago that he had licensed a little-known Holocaust memoir, Flory Van Beek’s FLORY: Survival in the Valley of Death, for development as a mini-series, likely for ABC. (Gibson’s Con Artist Prods. is producing along with Jaffe/Braunstein and Sladek/Taaffe, where Daniel Sladek brought the project in.) Now Trident Media Group agent Eileen Cope — brought in by Sladek, with whom she had collaborated previously — is preparing a broad submission for next week, expecting to close a US deal first […]
