I’ve always been more fascinated with the people behind the magic of entertainment, than those actors or performers who are basically the cattle to project someone elses vision. Of course when I grew up my hero’s were Harrison Ford, Kurt Russell and the many macho men that filled my screen but once I started to read about the men behind the events, my idiolosing quickly turned to the likes of Steven Spielberg, Vince McMahon, Walt Disney and P.T. Barnum. And that’s where it remains to this day.
The men behind the curtain. The one’s who perfected “The Greatest Show on Earth” each and everytime they held an event.
Columbia Pictures have acquired a pitch from writer Stan Chervin, the guy who wrote the first draft of Moneyball before it got into the hands of Aaron Sorkin/Stephen Soderbergh and eventually was rejected.
It’s untitled and “will cover the early years of Barnum, who rose from a shopkeeper to the charismatic showman who built the circus he called “The Greatest Show on Earth.”
May I suggest “The Man Behind the Curtain” as a perfect title?
