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Old 03-21-2008, 06:46 PM
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This is how another Sean Keller is born

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Brad Ingelsby began last week as a 27-year old who lives with his parents in Pennsylvania, working for his father’s insurance business. By last Thursday, he’d made a fortune for his very first script, one that might get made quickly with Ridley Scott directing and Leonardo DiCaprio starring.

Relativity Media outbid four studios and paid $650,000 against $1.1 million for “The Low Dweller,” a dark drama set in 1986 in Indiana. Plan is for DiCaprio to play Slim, a man who gets released after serving years in prison for murder, and wants only to follow through on his promise to marry his long-suffering girlfriend. That is, until he discovers that his loser brother has been murdered after getting involved in a seedy midwestern gambling racket. While Slim did time for a murder he couldn’t avoid, he decides he can’t skip out on his obligation to avenge his brother’s murder.

Ingelsby, who spent two years studying screenwriting at the American Film Institute before returning home to write on the side, learned his good fortune when his agents rang the phone at his parents house. He owes a thank you to Focus Features creative exec Michael Pruss, an acquaintance of Ingelsby who read “The Low Dweller” in January and loved it so much that he circulated it among agents. WMA quickly signed Ingelsby, then tied in Scott Free. Soon, DiCaprio’s Appian Way came aboard, with both shingles producing with Relativity’s Ryan Kavanaugh.

Timing of the film is uncertain, but sources said buyers sparked not only to its No Country for Old Men-like plotline, but also because the film is a down and dirty project that can be knocked out in a 35-day shoot. Scott and DiCaprio, who just worked together on the Warner Bros. drama “Body of Lies,” have big projects on their dance cards, but they could slot this in and get it done quickly.

DiCaprio did just that on “Shutter Island,” the Paramount thriller adaptation of the Dennis Lehane novel which DiCaprio is currently shooting. He and Martin Scorsese expected to make “The Wolf of Wall Street,” but when the project got stuck at Warner Bros. they quickly jumped to “Shutter Island,” a project they knew they could complete before the expiration of SAG contracts in June.

Relativity wasn’t commenting on whether it would finance the film and lay it off on a studio, or berth it at a major quickly.

Either way, it was a dream come true for young Brad Ingelsby.
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Old 03-21-2008, 06:57 PM
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Sounds like an interesting movie, something I'll catch for sure. I can't wait to shop around my screenplay and get lots of rejection. At least I'll be done with the damn thing.
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Old 03-21-2008, 07:59 PM
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The script sounds great, but I'm just not a DiCaprio fan. I know he can get movies made though, so the writer is very lucky.
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Old 03-21-2008, 08:55 PM
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sounds like he's a hell of a lot bigger than "the next Sean Keller" :D

I wish him well and the project sounds cool as shit!
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Old 03-22-2008, 02:47 AM
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Go Brad (Whoever he is)!!! That is so good and righteous. I love a happy story where the bad guy wins (except in my book).
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Old 03-22-2008, 08:11 AM
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That's awesome for him seriously. Must be an awesome feeling to be writing on the side and then one day BOOM he gets a call and he is almost close to a millionaire.
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