The Golden Suicides

Status: In Development

Based on the Vanity Fair Article by: Nancy Jo Sales

Writer: Bret Easton Ellis (America Psycho, Less Then Zero, The Informers)

Consulting Director: Gus Van Sant (Milk, Elephant, Good Will Hunting, Finding Forrester)

Production Companies: PalmStar Entertainment, Celluloid Dreams, Ithaka Entertainment

Producers: Kevin Frakes, Hengameh Panahi, Braxton Pope

Genre: Drama

Shooting Schedule: 2010
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Summary:

The true story revolves around the short lives of Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake, who shared a radiant, obsessive love, an uncommon bond formed in no small part by their almost religious belief in the concept of bohemia. Duncan made a name for herself as one of the first designers of video games for girls, and Blake was an artist whose “digital paintings”-kaleidoscopic abstractions shown on plasma screens-had made him a rising art star. Together, they were a magnetic social force, who fast became the toast of the downtown New York scene. But out of nowhere, they developed a consuming belief that complex forces involving the government and various religious organizations were conspiring against them, which began a strange, downward spiral into a world of paranoia that resulted in Duncan taking her own life on July 10, 2007. In a Romeo and Juliet-esque twist of fate, it was Blake who first discovered her body on the floor of their bedroom, and it was Blake who, a week later, ended his own life by walking into the Atlantic Ocean.

Reviews:

“Something about their story seemed to capture the modern imagination, if only because no one knew exactly why two such accomplished and attractive people had chosen to make their exit…”

– Vanity Fair