“The Surrogate” has been picked up at the Sundance Festival by Fox Searchlight for $6 million, according to the TheWrap. The U.S. narrative competition drama drew offers shortly after its well-received world premiere Monday afternoon at the Eccles Theatre.
The fact-based film stars Helen Hunt as the professional sex surrogate and John Hawkes, as Mark O’Brien, a poet/journalist who spent much of his life confined to an iron lung. O’brien is a 38 year old polio victim who hires a sex surrogate to lose his virginity. | Full Story
