I live in Bath and run a business that sells hundreds of thousands of second hand books all around the world. For the last few years I have been developing a screenplay from my memoir of the sixties, The Survival of the Coolest. Although it's based on the memoir, it's become a fiction in which historical figures like Charles Darwin (my great great grandfather), Charlie Mingus and Bertrand Russell have small parts. The logline is "The Evolution of a Man". Peter Samuelson, the Hollywood Producer, wrote this after reading the script: “It seems to me not only a very well-done script but also a film with Something To Say that is very right-now. It speaks to me about addiction, about young people escaping their parents and about Cambridge in the ‘60′s (I was, after all, there). And it’s about love and the Meaning of Life but profoundly and not daftly. Really, a wonderment, I thought. And interesting and relevant now.” I've just completed the nth rewrite addressing notes I got from respected sources, mainly to make it less "episodic". I have a producer in London, but am looking for ways to get some movement.
Sounds like a great project, William. Good luck with it!