Hancock to Helm “Boy Genius”
Disney hasn’t been shy in saying that “The Blind Side” should have been made by the Mouse House. Since the feel good football drama scored a touchdown at the box office, the studio has locked down Gil Netter, one of the pic’s producers to a first-look deal, and has now hired its helmer, John Lee Hancock, to direct “Electric Boy Genius.” The deal is the latest sign of how Disney is aggressively zeroing in on talent it wants to work with, since Rich Ross and Sean Bailey took over the studio. In addition to launching more Marvel superheroes, adding DreamWorks pics to the pipeline, and bringing back the Muppets, it’s tapped Tim Burton, Sam Raimi, Guillermo del Toro, David Fincher and Robert Downey Jr., among others, to shepherd or headline high-profile projects. Doug Wright (”Quills”) is penning the script for “Electric Boy Genius,” based on a GQ article, published in 2002, that profiles Ryan Patterson, a wunderkind of electricity who won the Intl. Science and Engineering Fair in 2001. Andrew Corsello wrote the story.
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