Chloë Grace Moretz, Jenny Slate and Thomas Mann to Star in Charlize Theron Produced BRAIN ON FIRE

Broad Green Pictures announced today a partnership with Denver & Delilah and Foundation Features to produce and finance BRAIN ON FIRE, a film based on Susannah Cahalan’s critically acclaimed memoir Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, which was first published in 2012 and quickly became a New York Times bestseller.

The film will be directed by Gerard Barrett (Glassland, Pilgrim Hill). Charlize Theron, A.J. Dix and Beth Kono of Denver & Delilah, and Rob Merilees and Lindsay Macadam of Foundation Features are producing.

The film will star Chloë Grace Moretz (If I Stay, Kick-Ass), Jenny Slate (Obvious Child) and Thomas Mann (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Project X). Principal photography will begin July 13 in Vancouver and the film is set for release in 2016.

BRAIN ON FIRE follows Cahalan (Moretz), a rising journalist at the New York Post who mysteriously starts having seizures and hearing voices. As weeks go by and Susannah rapidly descends into insanity, she moves inexplicably from violence to catatonia. Following a series of outbursts, misdiagnoses and a prolonged hospital stay, a lucky last-minute intervention by one doctor finally gives her a diagnosis and hope to rebuild her life.

Broad Green Pictures will distribute Brain on Fire in the United States, while the studio’s partner, Mister Smith Entertainment will continue to sell international rights after launching the film at the European Film Market in February. This collaboration marks the second time Broad Green Pictures and Mister Smith Entertainment have united since the two companies announced that Broad Green bought a 45% stake in the international licensing and distribution company. Previously, the two announced a partnership to bring Buena Vista Social Club – Adios, the sequel to the Oscar-nominated Buena Vista Social Club to theatres.

“We are excited to work with this incredible group of filmmakers and actors to bring Susannah Cahalan’s life story to the big screen,” said Broad Green Pictures’ Chief Creative Officer Daniel Hammond. “With the help of our partners at Mister Smith, we will be able to share this incredibly moving film with a global audience.”

“I’m thrilled and excited to be in business with such a creative and filmmaker-driven studio like Broad Green,” says Barrett. “We have an incredible true story to tell, a story that has touched millions of people, and I could not be happier, than to be partnering with the talent at Broad Green to bring it to the world.”

The deal was brokered on behalf of the filmmakers by WME Global, while Victor Moyers, President of Production, and Chris Tricarico, EVP Legal & Business Affairs, General Counsel handled for Broad Green Pictures.