• Seducing Ingrid Bergman

  • Arash Amel
  • Set Up
  • 2014
  • Black List
  • 70.4
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Market: Mon, 15 Dec 2014Sold: Mon, 15 Dec 2014
Producer: Uday Chopra, Arash Amel, Jonathan Reiman
AgentBrian Siberell, Ida Ziniti (CAA)
ManagerMatt Rosen (Grandview)
FinancierYRF Entertainment
Based on Chris Greenhalgh’s eponymous novel. Ingrid Bergman and war photographer Robert Capa engage in a passionate, life changing romance in post-World War II Paris.
A famed war photographer forms a love-affair with Ingrid Bergman, where he learns of the freedoms she has given up in exchange for immense game.
A Hollywood starlet is pursued by a war photographer who refuses to treat her differently.
In 1945, one of the world's most famous movie stars begins an affair with a troubled war photographer.
Film
Film, Female Protagonist, Drama, Romance, Celebrity
111
PG-13
High
F
White / European
30
Attractive
The Great Gatsby, Casablanca, My Week with Marilyn
1945/Over a year
Paris streets, Paris hotel, French War Zones, New York apartment, Broadway theater, Los Angeles beach house, LA mansion, Hollywood film studios, Fancy offices,
This opens on a typewriter in order to signify that the following events will be written about. It cuts to the lives of the two main protagonists. ROBERT CAPA is a photojournalist and sees mostly death around him. He also has had a bad experience with women.

INGRID BERGMAN wakes up in her giant mansion in Hollywood California, her Oscar prize shielding her eyes immediately as she wakes up. It is obvious from the beginning that her life is under control by her wealthy husband, who also has a financial stake in her career. She is about to go to Paris on business and he advises her to "work the press."

Capa also happens to be in Paris and is discussing the prospect of a new book with his associates that he can't seem to be able to write. He sees Ingrid walk in with tons of bodyguards and their eyes meet.

Later Capa drunk calls Ingrid and she hangs up out of "self-respect." He calls again immediately after and she picks up. He asks if she would like to meet downstairs in the bar for a drink to celebrate the French "victory" in the war saying that this is...