EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime has ordered two new authentic motion pictures for the community’s Ripped From The Headlines fall slate, centered on true life occasions. They are 53 Days: The Abduction of Mary Stauffer (working title) starring Alyson Hannigan (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Daphne Hoskins (The Detour); and Saving Alex (working title), starring Addison Holley (Annedroids), Ian Lake (Mary Kills People) and Sarah Booth (American Horror Story).
53 Days: The Abduction of Mary Stauffer (wt) is the harrowing true story of highschool instructor Mary Stauffer (Hannigan) and her eight-year previous daughter, Beth (Hoskins), who’re held captive for 53 days by a former pupil who was obsessed along with her. have been eternally modified once they have been held at gunpoint on their means dwelling. With their fingers certain and compelled into the trunk of Mary’s automobile, the mom and daughter have been held captive by the person, Ming Sen Shiue, who Mary later found was her former pupil from 15 years prior, was obsessive about Mary and had been stalking her ever since. Enduring torture, rape and quite a few threats, Mary turned to her religion to maintain her and her daughter whereas held in captivity for 53 days, earlier than they have been capable of lastly escape their horrific nightmare.
53 Days: The Abduction of Mary Stauffer is produced by Stalking Productions, Inc in affiliation with Johnson Production Group and government produced by Timothy Johnson and Michael Vickerman. Jim Donovan directs from a script written by Michael Vickerman.
Based on a harrowing, true story, Saving Alex (wt) follows the journey of 15-year-old Alex Cooper (Holley), held in opposition to her will in a homosexual conversion remedy dwelling. Trapped for eight months with strangers (Booth and Lake), Alex confronted horrible punishments and beatings that have been supposed to remedy her homosexuality. After realizing she must undergo their guidelines with the intention to survive, Alex was ultimately allowed to attend faculty, the place she turned pals with a boy that was the president of the gay-straight alliance who helped Alex get in contact with an lawyer, who later helped orchestrate her escape.
Saving Alex is produced by SilverScreen Pictures and government produced by Jeffrey Hunt, Kyle Clark and Lina Wong. Jeffrey Hunt directs from a script by Michelle Paradise.
Hannigan, who’s greatest recognized for her roles on Buffy The Vampire Slayer, How I Met Your Mother and the American Pie franchise, can at the moment be seen on Fool Us for the CW, Kim Possible for Disney and in May on the drama sequence Pure for WGN/Hulu. She is repped by APA and McKuin Frankel Whitehead.
