{"id":2549,"date":"2014-02-14T19:42:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T19:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2014\/02\/14\/permut-presentations-and-reunion-pictures-team-up-for-spencer-tracy-and-katharine-hepburn-feature\/"},"modified":"2014-02-14T19:42:03","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T19:42:03","slug":"permut-presentations-and-reunion-pictures-team-up-for-spencer-tracy-and-katharine-hepburn-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2014\/02\/14\/permut-presentations-and-reunion-pictures-team-up-for-spencer-tracy-and-katharine-hepburn-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Mike Fleming Jr. \/ Deadline Hollywood<\/em><\/p>\n<p>David Permut\u2018s Permut Presentations and Reunion Pictures have teamed to produce<em>\u00a0Tracy And Hepburn,<\/em>\u00a0a David Rambo-scripted feature about the long love affair between the screen legends\u00a0Spencer Tracyand\u00a0Katharine Hepburn. Rambo\u2019s credits include\u00a0<em>CSI<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Revolution<\/em>. The film starts when Tracy and Hepburn meet for the first time at MGM studios before making\u00a0<em>Woman Of The Year<\/em>, and tracks their complicated relationship to Tracy\u2019s death that came days after shooting his last scene in\u00a0<em>Guess Who\u2019s Coming To Dinner<\/em>. The producers are looking for a director and the right actors to portray the iconic duo. Permut, John Dayton and Lisa Richardson will produce the film with Permut Presentation\u2019s Chris Mangano executive producing with Reunion Pictures\u2019 Tom Rowe and Matthew O\u2019Connor.<\/p>\n<p>Over 27 years, Tracy and Hepburn starred in nine films together, one of Hollywood\u2019s most successful on-screen couples. They were madly in love off screen, and though he never divorced his wife Louise Tracy, he and Hepburn\u2019s love affair was an open secret in Hollywood. Hepburn remained committed to Tracy until his death in 1967, but their relationship suffered from Tracy\u2019s struggles with alcoholism and Catholic guilt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDavid Rambo is one of the most prolific writers I know,\u201d Permut said. \u201cI had entrusted him to write a one-man play on Ronald Reagan called\u00a0<em>The Lifeguard<\/em>, which he executed brilliantly. He\u2019s now gotten under the skin of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn\u2019s complex relationship with the same unique style and elegance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dayton and Hepburn worked together over the latter part of her life and became a confidante as he produced\u00a0<em>The Man Upstairs, This Can\u2019t Be Love, Love Affair\u00a0<\/em>and her final film<em>\u00a0One Christmas<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver-based Reunion Pictures, a Thunderbird Films Company, is a collaboration between producers Richardson, Tom Rowe and Matthew O\u2019Connor that is about to launch\u00a0<em>The Last Great Gold Rush<\/em>, written by Ted Mann, and the Nick Willing-penned\u00a0<em>Opium<\/em>\u00a0as international co-productions.\u00a0 On the big screen, they are exec producing the<em>\u00a0Blade Runner<\/em>\u00a0reboot being mounted by Ridley Scott and Alcon. Permut just wrapped the Stephen Belber-directed<em>\u00a0Match<\/em>\u00a0with Patrick Stewart, Carla Gugino and Matthew Lillard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Fleming Jr. \/ Deadline Hollywood David Permut\u2018s Permut Presentations and Reunion Pictures have teamed to produce\u00a0Tracy And Hepburn,\u00a0a David Rambo-scripted feature about the long love affair between the screen legends\u00a0Spencer Tracyand\u00a0Katharine Hepburn. Rambo\u2019s credits include\u00a0CSI\u00a0and\u00a0Revolution. 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