“What is Past is Prologue”
The lessons from history are always relevant to the issues we face today and truth is always stranger than fiction. That’s why content based on true stories and real history must continue to be made. Like Sci-Fi, stories and lessons that are so very relevant today can be taught through the guise of a galaxy far, far away – or in a true story that happened long, long ago. However, like Sci-Fi, period pieces and epic dramas are expensive. That’s why Pennlyn Productions is focusing on “Branded History” projects. To offset the inherent risk of investing in “period” stories, Pennlyn focuses on stories with built-in brand appeal.
At the lowest point in his life and baseball career, BABE RUTH is offered a chance to lead an All-Star baseball Good Will tour of Pre-War 1934 Japan.
The Babe not only experiences and discovers a different culture, but also humility, a new found respect for the game of baseball, and the inspiration not to give up on the game he loves.
A heart warming story about baseball, nationalism, and American & Japanese cultural history, as well as a tale of international intrigue, espionage, attempted murder, and, of course, baseball. BANZAI BABE RUTH is the only detailed account of the doomed attempt to reconcile the United States and Japan through the 1934 All-American baseball tour.
THE NATURAL meets LOST IN TRANSLATION
Bio-pic of Nikola Tesla who battled Thomas Edison for electricity supremacy and won – only to be cheated out of the fame and fortune he was duly owed.
Tesla was a genius savant who not only invented AC power (as we know it today), but also hydro & solar power, the X-ray, radar, radio, remote control, robotics, lasers, neon light, etc., but could barely maintain a human relationship.
The greatest true story never told.
THE IMITATION GAME meets THE AVIATOR
Based on true history. Decimated after losing an important battle in Persia, a Roman Legion escapes captivity only to be conscripted into the Imperial Chinese Army where they will merge tactics and cultures in order to defeat the brutal Hun along the Great Wall of China.
THE LAST SAMURAI meets 300
Bio-pic of the notorious auto tycoon who created the muscle car craze of the 60’s & 70’s as head engineer of General Motors only to battle GM brass in the 80’s over seat belts, air bags, fuel economy, and overall corporate hubris.
At the height of his power, DeLorean leaves GM to create his own sports car company, which produced the stainless steal, gull winged, iconic car made famous in BACK TO THE FUTURE.
However, having started a war with some of the biggest corporations on earth, DeLorean struggles to produce a quality car and ultimately gets busted sealing cocaine at an LAX hotel in a last ditch effort to save his doomed car company.
Bio-pic of Charlie Chaplin seen through the eyes of his personal secretary and best friend, an unlikely Japanese immigrant.
Sweeping bio-pic of the first true American icon, Benjamin Franklin.
Writer, diplomat, scientist, philosopher, businessman, inventor, and bon vivant, Benjamin Franklin was in every respect America’s first Renaissance man.
From penniless runaway to highly successful printer, from ardently loyal subject of Britain to architect of an alliance with France that ensured America’s independence.
A complicated and conflicting portrait of an even more complex and flawed man who had a hand in creating every pillar of our American society as we still know it today.