“Runaway bride” Jennifer Wilbanks made a deal with a company that is pitching a movie about her life to networks — annoying officials who spent thousands of dollars searching for her.
ReganMedia, a New York multimedia company, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for a story in Thursday’s papers it has acquired all media rights to the “life stories” of Wilbanks and her fiance, John Mason.
The company did not say whether any money had changed hands.
Well, since nothing seems to stop this media obsession, I suppose we might as well relax and try to get used to it. I think “White Woman in Trouble” should be the working title. After all, it leaves room for endless sequels. If it’s a big screen venture, I smell an Oscar. Small screen, then it’s an Emmy. I’m also betting that any profits made from the movie (and don’t doubt that it will get made somehow) will find its way back to the community that spent thousands looking for this woman.
On the bright side, if this gets off the ground and makes a profit, maybe someone will get the idea to make The Tamika Houston Story. Maybe. Right after they wrap filiming on Missing in Aruba.
Jeez.
My initial thought, who would pay money to see this movie? Then again, if someone will pay to make it, then the masses are out there to watch it.
I actually posted about Tamika Huston back in August. I wonder why her disappearance never made the national news headlines.
I can’t remember exactly (old age) but I seem to recall a law on the books that prevent anyone from making money selling a story about the commission of a crime. If she was charged with a crime she can’t profit from it.
I hope the movie is made and millions of dollars go to groups that look for real missing women.
I hope they give her a check for 5 million dollars and she finds out later she can’t keep it.
It wouldn’t even bother me if the judge sentenced her to 1,000 hours of community service. Perhaps a battered woman’s shelter.