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Lena Dunham to Adapt Refugee Survival Story for Steven Spielberg, J.J. Abrams
Variety ^ | October 29, 2018 | Matt Donnelly

Posted on 10/29/2018 7:45:54 PM PDT by EdnaMode

Lena Dunham will write the harrowing survival tale of a Syrian refugee stranded at sea for the big screen.

Dunham has been tapped by co-producers Steven Spielberg and J.J. Abrams to adapt “A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee’s Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival.”

The nonfiction release comes from author Melissa Fleming, the chief spokeswoman for the United Nations High Commissioner and Flatiron Books. It documents the true story of Doaa Al Zamel, a mother of two fleeing Egypt for Sweden by boat. Shipwrecked along the way, Al Zamel survived for days in open water holding two small children in each arm with only the support of an inflatable water ring.

The project is set up at Paramount Pictures with Abrams’ Bad Robot and Spielberg’s Amblin Partners producing. Arif Hussein will executive produce. Amblin and Paramount are expected to co-distribute the title globally.

Dunham is repped by CAA. She is a co-creator and executive producer on HBO’s “Camping” and the series “Girls.” She marked her breakout with the 2010 indie “Tiny Furniture,” for which she served as writer, director, and star.

Dunham will also appear in Quentin Tarantino’s forthcoming Manson-centric ensemble drama “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” alongside Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Margot Robbie.


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: abrams; doaaalzamel; dunham; egypt; hollywood; jjabrams; lenadunham; movies; refugee; refugees; speilberg; spielberg; stevenspielberg; sweden; syria; un; unitednations
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They really know what the public wants don't they? (sarcasm).
1 posted on 10/29/2018 7:45:54 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

Why dont they just burn a big pile of money right now and skip the movie no one wants to watch?


2 posted on 10/29/2018 7:47:36 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: EdnaMode

That’s cute, the Child Molester wants to make a screenplay.


3 posted on 10/29/2018 7:50:00 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: EdnaMode

Who?


4 posted on 10/29/2018 7:50:26 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: EdnaMode

Sounds very Hollywood and very Jewish.


5 posted on 10/29/2018 7:51:26 PM PDT by ruination
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To: max americana

Ping.


6 posted on 10/29/2018 7:51:52 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: EdnaMode

“Dunham is a Democrat and for her advertising support for Hillary Clinton she is being given a choice job by Spielberg and Abrams as a funneling method for donating more money to the DNC while making a propaganda movie that will further our progressive causes - long live Stalin”

It’s becoming more and more apparent to me that CAA will only promote you if you toe the Democrat line.


7 posted on 10/29/2018 7:55:06 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: EdnaMode

Written by this dunce, I’m sure the resulting product will totally stink.


8 posted on 10/29/2018 8:03:17 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: EdnaMode

A comedian actress is adapting a book by a UN flunky about a “Syrian refugee” who fled Egypt for Sweden.

#fakenewsfeedbackloop


9 posted on 10/29/2018 8:04:45 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: EinNYC

She’ll make sure that her character is nude...often...for no apparent reason.


10 posted on 10/29/2018 8:05:27 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
How about doing a movie about the Islamofascist rapists in Malmo? A-holes? Oh, that's right, Demwits hate women. Thanks EdnaMode.

11 posted on 10/29/2018 8:07:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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It documents the true story of Doaa Al Zamel, a mother of two fleeing Egypt for Sweden by boat.

Egypt to Sweden by sea? Must have been a big boat and that's a heckuva trip. Although Orr did it in a life raft in Catch-22....

12 posted on 10/29/2018 8:08:37 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: EdnaMode
Dunham will also appear in Quentin Tarantino’s forthcoming Manson-centric ensemble drama “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” alongside Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Margot Robbie.

I'll be sure to miss that.

13 posted on 10/29/2018 8:09:09 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: KC_Lion

Talk about Endless Trash!


14 posted on 10/29/2018 8:09:32 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: EdnaMode

Thd story of survival after the molestation by an older sister.


15 posted on 10/29/2018 8:13:00 PM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.)
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To: EdnaMode

I don’t want to listen to a whale singing to Ishmael.


16 posted on 10/29/2018 8:13:31 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: Secret Agent Man

just re-distribute large pile of money to underpaid actors and actresses


17 posted on 10/29/2018 8:13:44 PM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: EdnaMode
Relentlessly undermining. demeaning and debasing the host society’s culture and institutions.
What could go wrong?
18 posted on 10/29/2018 8:14:29 PM PDT by IWontSubmit (2)
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To: EdnaMode

I can hardly wait to miss it.


19 posted on 10/29/2018 8:52:32 PM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: EdnaMode

Oh puke!


20 posted on 10/29/2018 8:56:59 PM PDT by Bullish (I'm not going to say "I told you so" about FaceBook... I'm just going to put it in my tagline.)
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