Illinois vs. Missouri, 
The battle for Reagan

Friday, June 12th, 2009 | Movie Scripts | No Comments

States jockeying for film that stars Lowell Park

An article appeared in the Sauk Valley Newspaper last weekend detailing the latest details of Mike’s Lowell Park movie script. Fundraising for the movie is going very well and things are almost in place.

The article is as follows:

You might think that a movie about Ronald Reagan’s days in Lowell Park, taken from a book titled “Lowell Park” and itself titled “Lowell Park,” would be filmed in Lowell Park.

Well, not so fast.

The Show Me state also is vying for a piece of the action.

It all comes down to the money, and who’s willing to put up more of it.

L.A.-based Empire Film Group plans to turn a local author Mike Chapman’s book, about a college student who time-travels back to the area and meets a young lifeguard named Dutch Reagan – into a major motion picture.

Empire estimates it will cost about $5 million to produce the film. Although the company already has a script – written by Chapman – and plans to release the film in time for Reagan’s 2011 centennial celebration, Executive Producer Jim Townsend said he won’t officially announce that the movie is a go until the full $5 million has been raised.

The group would prefer to shoot it in Dixon, Townsend said.

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