The real-life house in Seattle with similarities to the home in Pixar's "Up" is starring in its own movie.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fox Searchlight is developing a film Edith Macefield, who was the lone holdout when a big commercial development bought all the land around her 1,000-square-foot home.
While Pixar denies that Macefield's house inspired the one carried away by balloons in "Up," the similarities are very striking. Macefield's house stood in Seattle for 100 years, until 2006, when commercial real estate developers began buying up all the properties around her. She became something of a local hero by turning down a $1 million offer.
The movie will focus on her unlikely friendship with Barry Martin, who supervised the construction project. He checked on the elderly woman daily as the five-story mall was built around her house. When Macefield died in 2008, she willed her home to Martin.
Now, the house is owned by a non-profit,...
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fox Searchlight is developing a film Edith Macefield, who was the lone holdout when a big commercial development bought all the land around her 1,000-square-foot home.
While Pixar denies that Macefield's house inspired the one carried away by balloons in "Up," the similarities are very striking. Macefield's house stood in Seattle for 100 years, until 2006, when commercial real estate developers began buying up all the properties around her. She became something of a local hero by turning down a $1 million offer.
The movie will focus on her unlikely friendship with Barry Martin, who supervised the construction project. He checked on the elderly woman daily as the five-story mall was built around her house. When Macefield died in 2008, she willed her home to Martin.
Now, the house is owned by a non-profit,...
- 8/25/2015
- by Kelly Woo
- Moviefone
"Easy A" director Will Gluck is set to produce a film about Edith Macefield, the Seattle woman who held out against developers and lived in her century old small farmhouse while a mall was built around it.
The story drew obvious comparisons to Pixar's beloved animated film "Up". Macefield stood her ground and turned down a reported offer of $1 million from developers, becoming a local hero.
She also struck up a deep friendship with the superintendent of the five-story construction project and he would check in on the old lady daily, even as the mall was slowly built around her home. When she died in 2008, she left the house to him.
Fox Searchlight has picked up the comedic drama project which boasts a script by John Whittington that deals with the friendship between the pair.
Jodi Hildebrand will also produce and Barry Martin's 2013 memoir "Under One Roof" also figuers into the deal.
The story drew obvious comparisons to Pixar's beloved animated film "Up". Macefield stood her ground and turned down a reported offer of $1 million from developers, becoming a local hero.
She also struck up a deep friendship with the superintendent of the five-story construction project and he would check in on the old lady daily, even as the mall was slowly built around her home. When she died in 2008, she left the house to him.
Fox Searchlight has picked up the comedic drama project which boasts a script by John Whittington that deals with the friendship between the pair.
Jodi Hildebrand will also produce and Barry Martin's 2013 memoir "Under One Roof" also figuers into the deal.
- 8/24/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
On a foggy winter morning, the shoreline of San Diego’s Torrey Pines beach resembles a forensic crime scene investigation into the animal kingdom. A series of red, orange, and yellow flags mark fresh outlines in the sand around various bird, insect, and animal tracks and scat. About a dozen people in shades of green and khaki huddle around them, getting down on their hands and knees to stare intently. They are taking a CyberTracker certification field test through NatureTracking.com, one of a handful of private companies training amateur biologists to do empirically based animal tracking. The goal: Create a new, more strictly certified corps to do wildlife habitat studies for ecological assessments, the kind that could affect everything from land-use zoning for new developments to national and city park plans and animal protection rights. As one woman with a long braided rat tail later said: “You’ve never...
- 4/29/2010
- Fast Company
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