EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning documentary filmmaker Lysa Heslov (Served Like a Girl) has signed with Gersh, also announcing that she’ll soon make her narrative feature directorial debut with Reinhard Denke’s 2009 Black List script, Sex, Greed, Money, Murder and Chicken Fried Steak.
The film is based on a true-crime story billed as the most notorious and shocking ever to come out of the state of Texas. It follows an idealistic young DA who comes up against wealth, corruption, and that “good ol’ boy” culture of the 1970s when he sets out to bring oil tycoon and accused murderer T.
Cullen Davis to justice. Davis was, at the time, believed to be the richest man ever to have been tried for murder in the United States.
This will also be the first feature from the Dallas, Texas-based financier Amicus Pictures — a grassroots investment firm that sees an opportunity in the global marketplace for quality-elevated feature films aimed at discriminating lovers of cinema worldwide.
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