Michelle Trachtenberg
Wrote A Screenplay Earlier than Demise …
Curiosity From Main Studio
Revealed
Michelle Trachtenberg was on the verge of closing a deal for a screenplay she had been purchasing for years earlier than her dying, TMZ has realized.
Director and producer Casey Tebo tells TMZ the late actress wrote top-of-the-line screenplays he is ever learn — “Toy Monster,” based mostly on the e book of the identical title — they usually had been near touchdown studio assist 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 in the course of the Chilly Struggle to turn out to be chief engineer for Mattel in the course of the creation of the Barbie doll, Chatty Cathy and Sizzling Wheels. Apparently Ryan had a naughty facet — residing 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 go away to handle one other firm, forcing them again to the drafting board.
Nevertheless, he says they’d one other breakthrough nearly a month in the past … when a “very successful finance studio” expressed their curiosity. The undertaking is now on a pause because of 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 by way of.
Casey — who directed Bruce Campbell in 2021’s “Black Friday” and is at present bringing initiatives to Cross Creek Photos — notes the screenplay impressed studios when it was first pitched … including that followers might be equally as happy to learn the way “brilliant” of a author the “Gossip Girl” alum was.
He feels probably the most “tragic” a part of the screenplay is how uncared for Michelle’s abilities have been by business honchos who solely noticed her because the witty schoolgirl from “Harriet the Spy,” the recent woman from “EuroTrip” and the evil genius villain Georgina from “Gossip Girl.” He sees this because the undertaking that may 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 house. Her household has declined an post-mortem, which means her reason behind dying 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 dying.
We do know her passing was sudden … as Michelle’s “Spyral” producer Jennifer Hutchins instructed 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.
