EXCLUSIVE: Stan Spry and Eric Woods of Los Angeles production outfit The Cartel are teaming with David Permut (Hacksaw Ridge, Face/Off) to acquire the film rights to Joel Dobson’s novel The Goldsboro Broken Arrow.The book tells the true story of one of the most serious nuclear incidents in history.
In 1961, four pilots ejected out of a B-52 aircraft carrying two thermonuclear bombs at 9,000 feet after the plane was struck multiple times by lightning and lost a wing.
One pilot died, three others survived, and the two nuclear bombs fell at a velocity of 700 mph and crashed into Goldsboro, North Carolina.The condition of the fail-safe mechanism on the bombs, which were 250 times more destructive than the Hiroshima bomb, was unknown, and there
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