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The Immortality Factor
Release Date: TBA
Genres: Science Fiction
Production Phase: Pitch
Production Company: B-Four Productions
Who's Making It: Kevin Fox (Screenwriter), Isen Robbins (Producer), Aimee Schoof (Producer), Grant Turck (Producer), Ben Bova (Creator - Writer)
Premise: Two brothers at odds with the ethical and scientific debate over stem cell research wrestle over a new breakthrough that allows human organs to now be grown. Both men love the same woman whose only... More »
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Science fiction author Ben Bova's B-Four Productions and Red Giant Media are teaming up to develop a movie based on the novelist's book The Immortality Factor. Screenwriter Kevin Fox (The Negotiator) will adapt Bova's book as well as help produce the film along with Grant Turck for B-Four and Isen Robbins and Aimee Schoof for Red Giant.
Originally published under the title Brothers in 1996, the uncut version was released this past April as The Immortality Factor. The story revolves around two brothers, one a scientist and the other a medical doctor, who are at odds over the use of research arising from stem cells but who both love the same woman whose life could be saved by the technology. [Full story]
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