Michelle Trachtenberg
Wrote A Screenplay Earlier than Dying …
Curiosity From Main Studio
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Michelle Trachtenberg was on the verge of closing a deal for a screenplay she had been looking for years earlier than her demise, TMZ has realized.
Director and producer Casey Tebo tells TMZ the late actress wrote probably the greatest screenplays he is ever learn — “Toy Monster,” primarily based on the guide of the identical title — and so they had been near touchdown studio help within the weeks earlier than she died.
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The biopic-drama follows the controversial lifetime of Jack Ryan — who left a job designing missiles for the Pentagon throughout the Chilly Warfare to change into chief engineer for Mattel throughout the creation of the Barbie doll, Chatty Cathy and Sizzling Wheels. Apparently Ryan had a naughty aspect — dwelling a lifetime of extra as he was making a few of the most important toys of the century.
Getting the undertaking funded was a roller-coaster for Michelle and Casey. Years in the past, the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” star discovered a serious studio to tackle the undertaking … solely to have the studio head depart to handle one other firm, forcing them again to the drafting board.
Nevertheless, he says that they had one other breakthrough nearly a month in the past … when a “very profitable finance studio” expressed their curiosity. The undertaking is now on a pause attributable to Michelle’s tragic passing … however Casey says he’s decided to have it made in her honor, including she 100% needed to see the film via.
Casey — who directed Bruce Campbell in 2021’s “Black Friday” and is presently bringing tasks to Cross Creek Footage — notes the screenplay impressed studios when it was first pitched … including that followers will likely be equally as happy to learn the way “good” of a author the “Gossip Woman” alum was.
He feels probably the most “tragic” a part of the screenplay is how uncared for Michelle’s abilities have been by trade honchos who solely noticed her because the witty schoolgirl from “Harriet the Spy,” the new lady from “EuroTrip” and the evil genius villain Georgina from “Gossip Woman.” He sees this because the undertaking that can give her the popularity she deeply deserved.
As followers know … the “Ice Princess” star was pronounced lifeless final Wednesday after her mother discovered her unresponsive in her New York Metropolis condominium. Her household has declined an post-mortem, that means her reason for demise is undetermined.
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TMZ realized Michelle had a liver transplant simply months earlier than her passing, although it is unclear if that performed a job in her sudden demise.
We do know her passing was sudden … as Michelle’s “Spyral” producer Jennifer Hutchins informed us she was planning to seem at a personal psychological well being profit screening for the movie throughout SXSW in Austin, Texas on March 12.
