I am drawn to high concept, commercial projects in both the film and TV space. I really like character driven stories across all genres and formats. I am especially interested in reading grounded action, sci-fi, and crime for both features and TV (HEAT; ARRIVAL; TOKYO VICE; MIND HUNTER; SHOGUN.)
I am also interested in true stories (EVEREST; SOCIETY OF THE SNOW; FORD V FERRARI) and stories that could be true (THE MARTIAN; HELL OR HIGH WATER.) I would love to read female driven projects (ATOMIC BLONDE; SICARIO; EX MACHINA) and projects that are diverse in an authentic way as well as adaptations from books, graphic novels, or articles.
I'm also a big fan of genre fare (PACIFIC RIM; DUNE; MAD MAX; JURASSIC PARK; FURY.) Sports stories, especially true ones or ones that could be true are also something I'm interested in reading.
If you have a project that can balance being both good and commercial and it has characters with depth and complexity, then I would like to read it.
Faith based projects, children's animation, musicals, or spoof comedies.
MJ Grogan is a Development Executive and Producer at ACE Content an Academy Award and Emmy winning production company whose credits include FREE SOLO and NatGeo's BECOMING COUSTEAU. He recently worked on the Hulu series MAGGIE, the Netflix adventure thriller BURIED, and Stacey Peralta's surf epic THE YIN & YANG OF GERRY LOPEZ.
With a background in feature films, television, and documentaries, MJ is currently developing and producing an off-road racing feature film with Netflix, a spy thriller with Working Title, a biopic of the Native American rock band Redbone, and an action comedy based on the bestselling novel The Blonde Identity.
Prior to joining ACE, MJ was a development executive at Legendary Entertainment and Disney where he worked on such films as DUNE, ENOLA HOLMES, GODZILLA V KONG, DETECTIVE PIKACHU, A CHRISTMAS STORY CHRISTMAS, THE JUNGLE BOOK, PETE'S DRAGON, TOGO and many others.
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