{"id":412676,"date":"2026-08-21T07:36:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T07:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/412676\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T07:36:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T07:36:32","slug":"film-in-the-works-on-texas-woman-who-lost-13-years-of-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/412676\/","title":{"rendered":"Film in the works on Texas woman who lost 13 years of memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Worth<\/p>\n<p>A film is in the works on a Texas woman who lost 13 years of her memory from complications during childbirth.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/08\/sean-mcnamara-to-direct-faith-based-drama-blank-canvas-1237045193\/\">Deadline reported on Wednesday, Aug. 19,<\/a> that \u201cReagan\u201d and \u201cSoul Surfer\u201d director Sean McNamara will write and direct \u201cBlank Canvas.\u201d The faith-based drama is based on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noFollow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blank-Canvas-Amazing-Couldnt-Remember\/dp\/149645037X\">Marcy Gregg\u2019s 2022 memoir<\/a> of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>In 1990, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marcygregg.com\/\">Gregg, who is from East Texas and went to SMU<\/a>, contracted <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meningitisnow.org\/meningitis-explained\/types-of-meningitis\/pneumococcal\/\">pneumococcal bacterial spinal meningitis<\/a> during the delivery of her third child at the age of 30. She went into a coma, and when she woke up, Gregg believed she was 17 years old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the age of 30, Marcy Gregg experienced a serious medical complication during childbirth that resulted in the loss of 13 years of her memory. Faced with the challenge of rebuilding her identity, relationships, and faith, Gregg embarked on a deeply personal journey of healing and transformation that would ultimately shape her life\u2019s work and the message she shares with audiences today,\u201d the film\u2019s synopsis reads.<\/p>\n<p>For more coverage like this, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/259144728\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Star-Telegram\u2019s North Texas entertainment section<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfac In case you missed it: <\/p>\n<p>        Film on Marcy Gregg in the works<\/p>\n<p>Gregg\u2019s memories have yet to return, so she decided to rebuild her life.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Gregg is a full-time artist based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her work has been on display across the country and abroad, according to her website.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Gregg published her memoir, \u201cBlank Canvas: The Amazing Story of a Woman Who Awoke from a Coma to a Life She Couldn\u2019t Remember,\u201d about her memory loss and how she moved forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinally, one night, seven years after the coma, God impressed on my heart that he saved me for the future, not the past, and at that point I was able to really let go. Now we live to make new memories,\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smu.edu\/alumni\/news-and-stories\/featured-stories\/marcy-gregg-feature\">Gregg told SMU in an interview.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlank Canvas\u201d will be produced by McNamara and David Brookwell, and executive produced by Will Crenshaw of Beaumont, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no word on who will star as Gregg in the film, or if the project will film in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/259144728\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/BraydenHeadshot.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Brayden Garcia\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/259144728\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brayden Garcia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Brayden Garcia is the entertainment reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where he mainly writes about how the film and TV industry impacts North Texas, from Taylor Sheridan shows to the Fort Worth Film Commission and everything in between.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Worth A film is in the works on a Texas woman who lost 13 years of her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-412676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}