EXCLUSIVE: Monarch Media has picked up the rights to Ken Scott’s best-selling biography Do the Birds Nonetheless Sing in Hell?

Black Checklist screenwriter Jayson Rothwell has tailored the biopic right into a function movie musical. In Do the Birds Nonetheless Sing in Hell, cocky British WWII soldier Jim Greasley has sacrificed himself over 200 instances by escaping from a German POW camp to each be with the girl he liked –the camp Commander’s private translator– and to return to camp with meals and provides for fellow prisoners in an effort to preserve them alive.

Monarch principals Steve Barnett and Alan Powel will produce via Monarch Media together with Bernie Goldmann. Monarch Media principal Vicky Patel will government produce.

“I’ve been obsessive about this superb love story for a very long time,” stated Barnett. “Together with my companions at Monarch Media, Alan and Vicky, and our producing associate on the undertaking, Bernie Goldmann, we consider Jayson Rothwell has completed an unimaginable job of adapting Ken Scott’s ebook right into a ground-breaking and exquisite musical.”

“I’m a giant fan of affection tales and there are far too few being produced,” stated Goldmann. “This movie has all the weather of a fantastic basic and extremely it’s a true story about an incredible man and girl. We’re all extremely excited to carry their story to the display.”

The undertaking reps the second function movie musical from Monarch Media, with its first manufacturing, A Week Away, having offered to Netflix earlier this yr. Barnett, Powell and Patel launched Monarch Media earlier this yr with a purpose to provide two to a few function movies a yr in all genres, in any respect funds ranges. We reported first that South Korean filmmaker Byung-gil Jung will direct Monarch’s navy motion thriller Havoc, set contained in the North Korean facet of the DMZ.

Rothwell tailored the the Darkish Horse graphic novel Polar which was become a Netflix film starring Mads Mikkelsen and Vanessa Hudgens. Rothwell additionally wrote the 2016 Black Checklist screenplay Liberty which is the really astonishing story of Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, the French sculptor wholly liable for designing, constructing, and delivering the Statue of Liberty throughout the Atlantic to the place it stands as we speak.

Do the Birds Nonetheless Sing in Hell? was revealed by John Blake Publishing Ltd. Rothwell is repped by United Brokers, Syndicate Leisure, and Sloane, Provide, Weber & Dern.

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