Mark Gordon Pictures has snapped up screen rights to Walter Isaacson’s latest book The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing and the Future of the Human Race, about Nobel Prize-winning scientist and co-inventor of Crispr technology Jennifer Doudna, which the label will develop as a limited series.
The project reteams Gordon and Isaacson, the former having previously optioned the latter’s bestselling 2011 biography Steve Jobs, which was turned into a 2015 Oscar-nominated movie directed by Danny Boyle, adapted by Aaron Sorkin and starring Michael Fassbender as Jobs.
The book follows Doudna and her collaborators who turned a curiosity of nature into an invention poised to transform human health: an easy-to-use tool known as Crispr that can edit DNA. Essentially, Crispr-Cas9 allows scientists to rewrite DNA – the code of life – in any organism, including human cells, with unprecedented efficiency and precision, opening up a world of new possibilities and potential. Doudna...
The project reteams Gordon and Isaacson, the former having previously optioned the latter’s bestselling 2011 biography Steve Jobs, which was turned into a 2015 Oscar-nominated movie directed by Danny Boyle, adapted by Aaron Sorkin and starring Michael Fassbender as Jobs.
The book follows Doudna and her collaborators who turned a curiosity of nature into an invention poised to transform human health: an easy-to-use tool known as Crispr that can edit DNA. Essentially, Crispr-Cas9 allows scientists to rewrite DNA – the code of life – in any organism, including human cells, with unprecedented efficiency and precision, opening up a world of new possibilities and potential. Doudna...
- 7/26/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Mark Gordon Pictures has pick up the screen rights to Walter Isaacson’s scientific discovery book The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race.
The Hollywood producer plans a limited TV series about Jennifer Doudna, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist and co-inventor of Crispr technology, a tool to rewrite and edit human genes, or the code of life.
Simon & Schuster published Isaacson’s latest book in March. Mark Gordon and Beth Pattinson will executive produce the limited TV series adaptation for Mark Gordon Pictures.
The project reunites Gordon with Isaacson after the Hollywood producer earlier optioned the ...
The Hollywood producer plans a limited TV series about Jennifer Doudna, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist and co-inventor of Crispr technology, a tool to rewrite and edit human genes, or the code of life.
Simon & Schuster published Isaacson’s latest book in March. Mark Gordon and Beth Pattinson will executive produce the limited TV series adaptation for Mark Gordon Pictures.
The project reunites Gordon with Isaacson after the Hollywood producer earlier optioned the ...
- 7/26/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Mark Gordon Pictures has pick up the screen rights to Walter Isaacson’s scientific discovery book The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race.
The Hollywood producer plans a limited TV series about Jennifer Doudna, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist and co-inventor of Crispr technology, a tool to rewrite and edit human genes, or the code of life.
Simon & Schuster published Isaacson’s latest book in March. Mark Gordon and Beth Pattinson will executive produce the limited TV series adaptation for Mark Gordon Pictures.
The project reunites Gordon with Isaacson after the Hollywood producer earlier optioned the ...
The Hollywood producer plans a limited TV series about Jennifer Doudna, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist and co-inventor of Crispr technology, a tool to rewrite and edit human genes, or the code of life.
Simon & Schuster published Isaacson’s latest book in March. Mark Gordon and Beth Pattinson will executive produce the limited TV series adaptation for Mark Gordon Pictures.
The project reunites Gordon with Isaacson after the Hollywood producer earlier optioned the ...
- 7/26/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
New Delhi, Feb 27 (Ians) In these days of the coronavirus pandemic, Walter Isaacson, the bestselling author of "Leonardo da Vinci" and "Steve Jobs", returns with "The Code Breaker" (Simon & Schuster), a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.
When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled "The Double Helix" on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counsellor told her girls didn't become scientists,...
When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled "The Double Helix" on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counsellor told her girls didn't become scientists,...
- 2/27/2021
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Dr. Jennifer Doudna, in the documentary Human Nature, in her lab at the Innovative Genomics Institute in Berkeley, CA. Doudna has tried to call public attention to the ethical implications of the Crispr technology she helped invent. Photo courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment.
The documentary Human Nature, which is available on Amazon Prime, offers an accessible, accurate explanation of Crispr, the molecular biology discovery that gives scientists a way to correct and cure genetic diseases, among other potential uses, but acting like molecular scissors to cut out and replace defective genes. The beautifully shot, well-researched Human Nature presents a mostly balanced picture of this groundbreaking discovery.
Crispr is often called “molecular scissors” for its ability to alter DNA sequences, even down to changing a single base pair, the “letters” of the DNA alphabet, a level of precision never before possible. Human Nature does an excellent job of covering the basics of...
The documentary Human Nature, which is available on Amazon Prime, offers an accessible, accurate explanation of Crispr, the molecular biology discovery that gives scientists a way to correct and cure genetic diseases, among other potential uses, but acting like molecular scissors to cut out and replace defective genes. The beautifully shot, well-researched Human Nature presents a mostly balanced picture of this groundbreaking discovery.
Crispr is often called “molecular scissors” for its ability to alter DNA sequences, even down to changing a single base pair, the “letters” of the DNA alphabet, a level of precision never before possible. Human Nature does an excellent job of covering the basics of...
- 4/24/2020
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
As expected, the coronavirus pandemic is hitting the box office hard, as many are under self-quarantine in an effort to flatten the curve. Some patrons are braving the outbreak, but as seen in preliminary box office numbers, it seems that many theaters are closing or limiting numbers. Patrons are opting to stay home, which is a good sign to see that people are taking precautions. However, the box office is seeing very low numbers and the specialty space is particularly feeling the impact.
New films being released in theaters are underperforming, landing between a low of 20% to a high of 35% in terms of projected numbers. Holdovers are also seeing a drop — more than usual. We have seen a handful of theater closings in New York, Philadelphia, D.C., Boston, and Seattle, and this may or may not continue in the upcoming week.
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New films being released in theaters are underperforming, landing between a low of 20% to a high of 35% in terms of projected numbers. Holdovers are also seeing a drop — more than usual. We have seen a handful of theater closings in New York, Philadelphia, D.C., Boston, and Seattle, and this may or may not continue in the upcoming week.
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- 3/15/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
TheWrap and the Breakthrough Prize Foundation on Monday announced the launch of a new film competition created to promote and support the development of films dedicated exclusively to science and scientists.
Heroes of Science: Breakthrough Filmmakers Challenge represents an unprecedented partnership between leading digital entertainment news outlet TheWrap and Breakthrough Prize, the world’s largest monetary science prize, as well as the coming together of two pursuits that are too often at odds in popular culture — art and science.
Through the competition, Breakthrough Prize and TheWrap hope to identify talented filmmakers who are passionate about bringing scientific ideas to life and who have the visual storytelling skill to create short films that express the beauty and significance of these ideas, as well as the characters of the scientists who discover them. Winning candidates will have the possibility of making a film for this year’s internationally broadcast Breakthrough Prize ceremony.
Heroes of Science: Breakthrough Filmmakers Challenge represents an unprecedented partnership between leading digital entertainment news outlet TheWrap and Breakthrough Prize, the world’s largest monetary science prize, as well as the coming together of two pursuits that are too often at odds in popular culture — art and science.
Through the competition, Breakthrough Prize and TheWrap hope to identify talented filmmakers who are passionate about bringing scientific ideas to life and who have the visual storytelling skill to create short films that express the beauty and significance of these ideas, as well as the characters of the scientists who discover them. Winning candidates will have the possibility of making a film for this year’s internationally broadcast Breakthrough Prize ceremony.
- 1/28/2020
- by Emily Vogel
- The Wrap
"Should we really be manipulating the hereditary of future generations given our lack of knowledge about so many things...?" Greenwich Entertainment has debuted an official Us trailer for an indie documentary film titled Human Nature, which already premiered at the SXSW and Cph:dox Film Festivals this year. The biggest tech revolution of the 21st Century isn't digital, it's biological. A breakthrough called Crispr has given us unprecedented control over the "building blocks of life." It opens the door to curing diseases, reshaping the biosphere, and even designing our own children. Human Nature is a provocative exploration of Crispr's far-reaching implications. Featuring the top minds including Jennifer Doudna (Uc Berkeley), Alta Charo (Max Planck Institute), David Baltimore (Cal Tech), George Church (Harvard University). This seems to be the definitive introduction to how it's changing the world, while also stoking ethical discussions. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Adam Bolt's doc Human Nature,...
- 11/21/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Berkeley professor Jennifer Doudna worked in an obscure area of biology — how bacteria fight viral infections — when she helped make a discovery that could change life on Earth: Crispr, a gene-editing tool capable of changing the DNA of any living thing almost as simply as using a find-and-replace function in a word processor.
Genetic diseases from cancer to congenital blindness could be cured, but Crispr’s possibilities go far beyond that, from bioengineering crops to resurrecting extinct species (scientists at Harvard are working on the woolly mammoth) to the moral...
Genetic diseases from cancer to congenital blindness could be cured, but Crispr’s possibilities go far beyond that, from bioengineering crops to resurrecting extinct species (scientists at Harvard are working on the woolly mammoth) to the moral...
- 3/3/2019
- by Claire Hoffman
- Rollingstone.com
Next year’s SXSW may still be months away, but the annual multi-pronged festival and conference gathering has already started rolling out a slew of impressive announcements. Next up, their third wave of Keynotes and Featured Speakers, plus 700 planned sessions for the 2017 event. Conference Keynotes now include filmmaker Gareth Edwards (“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” “Godzilla” and “Monsters”); Adam Grant, author of “Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World”; Creative Director and L.A. Anchor for Beats 1, Zane Lowe; and Mt. Everest photographer Cory Richards. They join previously announced Keynotes, including Lee Daniels, Jennifer Doudna and Jill Soloway.
Featured Speakers now include “Transparent” actor Kathryn Hahn and global design icon Marc Jacobs, along with business and tech influencers Whitney Wolfe and Padmasree Warrior, covering subjects that range from user privacy to next-generation entertainment options.
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Featured Speakers now include “Transparent” actor Kathryn Hahn and global design icon Marc Jacobs, along with business and tech influencers Whitney Wolfe and Padmasree Warrior, covering subjects that range from user privacy to next-generation entertainment options.
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“The...
- 10/17/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
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