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The Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me, to be filmed in Tennessee in the summer 2009.
About the screenwriter: William Akers teaches screenwriting at Vanderbilt University. He’s author of the book Your Screenplay Sucks: 100 Ways To Make It Great. His scripts for Ernest Rides Again and The Wolves OF Willoughby Chase were produced in Canada and England. His screenplay The Wolves OF Willoughby Chase was nominated for a CableAce. In addition, Akers has written feature screenplays for MGM, Disney, and Universal Studios. He adapted Simon Murray’s diary of five years in the French Foreign Legion as Simon: An English Legionnaire, an epic love story set against the Algerian revolution. Produced and directed by Martin Huberty, it stars Paul Fox as Simon Murray.
In television, he has written for Lois and Clark, Strange Luck, and was a staff writer on the original Eerie, Indiana. Akers has written and directed non-broadcast documentaries, written and produced a live story-driven motor racing series for cable, and written and directed children’s videos. He is currently preparing to produce Signs Following, an Appalachian gothic film about snakehandlers and dope growers he co-wrote with Dub Cornett. It has been optioned by Pink Slip Pictures in Los Angeles.