Cross Creek, JKIN Films Set Cody Brotter To Dig Into Tale Of College Pals Who Tunneled Under Berlin Wall And Freed 29 At Height Of Cold War
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Tyler Thompson‘s Cross Creek Pictures has teamed with Jay Kinra‘s JKIN Films to produce Dig. Black List scribe Cody Brotter has been set to write a geopolitical thriller inspired by the true events of Tunnel 29, the famous escape route built under the Berlin Wall during the height of the Cold War.
The film will offer a rare first-hand account of what really happened during the construction of the tunnel, which was built in 1962 by a culturally diverse group of International college students from Italy, Germany & India.
They met while attending The University of West Berlin and living in the same college dorm. The students were secretly aided by NBC News, which provided funding in exchange for exclusive access to capture footage of the escape.
There were twists and turns that went into freeing 29 people who risked their lives to venture through the leaky tunnel to get under the wall, and the operation was nearly compromised by a Stasi spy The footage was then compiled into the NBC documentary The Tunnel, but even that was controversial: the Kennedy Administration State Department, already dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis, initially squashed the docu.
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