Los Angeles filmmakers Michael Horwitz and Fran Harvey of 9B Films LLC have acquired film, tv and streaming rights to the dramatic real life story of special forces officer turned tech giant Danny Lewin. The project , The Hero in 9B, will be a stylized adaptation of the 2013 book “No Better Time:The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet" penned by author and journalist Molly Knight Raskin.
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Cambridge, Mass
Previous attempts to option the book by a range of Hollywood players had fallen short. In 2019 with streaming services spending billions on rights, the emergence of Netflix as a widely accepted launch platform for film, and the critical success of biopics like The Irishman (Netflix), Judy (Roadside Attractions), and Richard Jewel (Warner Bros.), the climate was ripe for untold American stories. Horwitz and Harvey were awarded the option for film, tv and streaming.
Horwitz directed the award winning Tzeva Adom ( foreign language film, 2017), and was top directing talent eyed by NBC Universal’s Emerging Directors program. His credits include a win at Sundance Film Festival for eco- doc FUEL ( feat. Larry David, Woody Harrelson). Harvey is head of partnerships at LA based production company Big Door Studios. They are repped by entertainment firm Contes Law Corporation of Los Angeles, CA.
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Author, Molly Knight Raskin
About the Author
Molly Knight Raskin is an acclaimed writer, journalist and television producer. She has been a contributing author for PBS Newshour, Scientific American Mind, The Washington Post and is currently a producer at Left/Right TV where she's working on a series for Netflix.
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