Introduction

Producer: Jason Alisharan (most recently worked on a single man, knows about how the emotions of the film

can be projected through colour and lighting which links in with our unique selling point.)

Director: James Mangold worked on films like walk the line so knows how to do period dramas and how to

portray a tortured soul, is likely he would be drawn to this challenge.

Talk a bit about our background, what films we’ve worked on our experience etc so we could choose already

establishes producers and directors e.g.:

Basic story

• Follow Holden Caulfield as he makes his way through the depths of 50s New York searching desperately for some sense of his identity as his physical and mental health slowly deteriorate. Freshly expelled from a typically preppy boarding school, restless adolescent Caulfield decides to find his way home of his own accord meeting many figures from both his past and present along the way. James Mangold’s innovative take on the late great JD Salinger’s cult classic has all the style and panache of the original text. This moving coming-of-age tale has plenty of ups and downs in store as Caulfield struggles to come to terms with a family bereavement.

Genre and audience

• Semi-biographical drama, which is why we have some of the team from walk the line working on it. (Nowhere boy etc)

• Audience should include Salinger fans everywhere as well as a broader social group including teenagers and young adults.

Cast

• Holden Caulfield: James Campbell Bower• Phoebe Caulfield: Chloe Moretz• We want an eclectic cast of British and

American actors to reflect the talent base.

Location

• Original fifties new york so far? As well as the boarding school.

• Elise: basically I was thinking it might be better to do it in the original new york setting cus otherwise none of the landmarks will stay the same, we can still do it with the modern cast and soundtrack I don’t know really, let me know what you think xxx

Music

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KH0NpeYZsk

• Elvis Costello• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1Ml

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Unique selling point• We want to shoot all his current scenes in his life in drained colour or simple

black and white, whereas the flashback scenes and the scene at the end with the carousel will be shot in colour to reflect his sense of renewed happiness.

Budget.

• Not sure about this one, any ideas? • xxxxxxxxxxxxx