{"id":83680,"date":"2025-08-21T23:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T23:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/83680\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T23:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T23:06:07","slug":"blake-lively-teams-with-marc-platt-for-lionsgates-the-survival-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/83680\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Lively Teams With Marc Platt for Lionsgate&#8217;s &#8216;The Survival List&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/blake-lively\/\" id=\"auto-tag_blake-lively_1\" data-tag=\"blake-lively\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Lively<\/a> is keeping her movie career in motion, teaming up with Wicked producer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/marc-platt\/\" id=\"auto-tag_marc-platt_1\" data-tag=\"marc-platt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Platt<\/a> to set up a new feature project at Lionsgate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe studio, home of Lively\u2019s A Simple Favor movies, has acquired\u00a0The Survival List, a spec script by Tom Melia for the actress to star as well as produce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAn action romantic comedy, Survival List tells of a highbrow reality TV producer named Annie who, against her wishes, is assigned to a new show hosted by a famous survival expert, Chopper Lane. However, when a shipwreck strands them on a deserted island, Annie discovers Chopper is a fraud and knows nothing about survival, leaving\u00a0her\u00a0in charge of figuring out how to keep them alive. Forced to work together, they begin to discover an unlikely chemistry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tScott O\u2019Brien will oversee the project for Lionsgate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLively has been in the spotlight of late, more for her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/general-news\/justin-baldoni-allowed-obtain-messages-blake-lively-taylor-swift-1236294957\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/general-news\/justin-baldoni-allowed-obtain-messages-blake-lively-taylor-swift-1236294957\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">legal battles<\/a> with director Justin Baldoni than her screen work. However, the actress-producer-entrepreneur is trying to keep the focus on her career and helping find material she could work on. She most recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-features\/another-simple-favor-co-writer-interview-blake-lively-1236205410\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-features\/another-simple-favor-co-writer-interview-blake-lively-1236205410\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">starred in Another Simple Favor<\/a>, made by Lionsgate and released by Amazon\u2019s Prime Video, in which she reteamed with director Paul Feig and co-star Anna Kendrick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tPlatt, a veteran movie and Broadway producer, is not only behind the stage production of long-running show Wicked but its movie adaptations as well, the second part of which is due to open Nov. 21. Platt also produced the live-action take of How to Train Your Dragon, which has flown to $626.4 million at the worldwide box office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMelia is a British writer who co-wrote the comedy Rye Lane, which starred David Jonsson and Vivian Oparah, and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. It was nominated for outstanding British film at the 2024 BAFTAs and also earned 16 nominations at the British Independent Film Awards, including best British independent film and best screenplay. Melia also wrote for the Sky drama series\u00a0Brassic as well as the Sky comedy\u00a0series Bloods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLively is repped by WME, Entertainment 360 and Sloane Offer. Melia is repped by WME and Kaplan\/Perrone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blake Lively is keeping her movie career in motion, teaming up with Wicked producer Marc Platt to set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[17860,6491,96,42199,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-83680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-blake-lively","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-marc-platt","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}