FIRST REGENERATIVE PROJECT :
Hammond Castle
In this fairytale for grown-ups a 7-month pregnant , failed actress becomes entangled with the power-hungry ghost of a long forgotten inventor hell-bent on reclaiming fame . He draws her into a glamorous ghost-filled fantasy and , together , they hatch a dangerous plan to secure both their legacies … at a terrible cost .
This story is based on the real-life John Hays Hammond Jr , a brilliant inventor and Gatsby-esque eccentric playboy who inherited a billion dollars in the 1920s and used some of it to build Hammond Castle , a medieval castle imported from Europe and reassembled on the cliffs of Gloucester , Massachusetts ( where we will shoot the film ).
He used to host week-long bacchanalias in his castle , including the who ’ s who of the day - Greta Garbo , Walt Disney , Rachmaninov , Stravinsky , the Barrymores ( all of whom are the glitterati ghosts of our film ) - and yet , despite holding more patents than any American other than Thomas Edison , almost no one knows who Hammond is .
As Rebecca is pulled into the orbit of this desperate specter , our main character Rebecca is facing a crisis of her own - whether to accept a slide into a life that is ordinary or to reach out and seize a death that could be extraordinary .
Hammond Castle is written by Naomi McDougall Jones and will be directed by the weird , wonderful , and magical creatives , Nat & Veronica Moonhill , whose award-winning work has been presented at the New Orleans Film Festival , OUTFest , and toured to cities and festivals across the US . It is being produced by Lindsay Lanzillotta , whose films , including The Invitation and The Vicious Kind , have premiered at major festivals all over the world , and Deniz Gumustas who is the Director of Film Curation at Cherry Picks . The film is being Executive Produced by Jack Lechner ( Blue Valentine , The Fog of War , Four Weddings and a Funeral , Good Will Hunting , and many more ).
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