Stevens lights 'Lopez' to fire up PowerHouse
Mills will adapt Baker novel
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PHE and Santa Barbara Filmed Entertainment will jointly produce the project, based on the novel and screen story by Elliott Baker. Sherry Mills ("The Adventures of Pinocchio") wrote the script.
In this period drama, exiled Portuguese Jew Dr. Roderigo Lopez is appointed to serve as personal physician to Queen Elizabeth I and finds himself at the center of a royal power struggle.
SBFE holds rights to the project and will produce and obtain financing with PHE. They hope to begin production in the fourth quarter.
Stevens serves as CEO of PowerHouse, which will produce live-action features, animated features and series and create interactive and videogames.
Joining Stevens is VP of international distribution Richard Novey. He previously worked with Stevens for eight years, first at Royal Oaks Entertainment and more recently at Franchise Pictures.
PHE is a private subsid of PowerHouse Studios, which went public last November with the acquisition of Agate Technologies.
Jay Elliot is the CEO of the Bridge Group, a holding company for PHS.
Stewart Bell is the chairman of subsid PowerHouse Interactive, which oversees development of gaming content. That product will be created offshore by PowerHouse Animation in India and its Shanghai-based division Morpheus Animation.
PHA produces the BBC's animated series "Mr. Moon."
