While much of what Joan says and does in the play is based on biographies and public record, much of it is also my own personal hallucination about Joan Crawford and what she might have been like if you got her really drunk.
Not "based on a true story" or "adapted from a true story," but the true gen. What's more, another card states that the movie is based on A. Scott Berg's biography "Max Perkins: Editor of Genius".
Most are based on biographies or on long-form journalism.
Most of what is known about Brunelleschi's life and career is based on a biography written in the 1480s by an admiring younger contemporary identified as Antonio di Tuccio Manetti.
Directed by Jay Roach (Austin Powers movies, Meet the Fockers), Trumbo is based on a biography of Trumbo by Bruce Alexander Cook.
The film, due out in November, is based on a biography of John Forbes Nash Jr., a Nobel Prize winning economist at Princeton.
This film is based on a biography, by Wayne Barrett of The Village Voice, that portrays Mr. Giuliani as about as sympathetic and benign as Vlad the Impaler.
This mostly black-and-white film, which was Mr. Franco's New York University master's thesis, is based on a biography of Crane by Paul L. Mariani (who also has a small role).
The project is a film entitled The Invention of the Past, and it is based on a biography of Vander by a writer called "JB", a man Cleave describes as "distinctly odd", who "grows odder each time I encounter him".
HBO said Monday that the project is based on the biography "Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman," by historian Kate Clifford Larson.
