Melissa London Hilfers, '98, Sells Original Screenplay

In a mid-six figure deal made in a competitive auction, Parkes+MacDonald and Black Bear Pictures have partnered to acquire and produce Undone, a spec script by first time writer Melissa London Hilfers, who was a litigator at the law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Parkes+MacDonald (through their Image Nation partners) & Black Bear have an option to finance or co-finance the picture. The script has a Gone Girl meets Primal Fear vibe to it. A popular podcast brings a strange, decades-old murder case into the spotlight and leads to a re-investigating of the thirty-five year old murder case, One of the nations top litigators fights to free the man the entire country believes was wrongly convicted, until she begins to suspect her own past might be the key to the murder itself. They expect the script to be catnip for actresses.