Michelle Trachtenberg was close to closing a deal for a screenplay she had been working on for years before her shocking death last week, TMZ reports. Speaking to a director and producer involved with the project, Casey Tebo, the outlet reports that Trachtenberg was seemingly working on a script titled, “Toy Monster,” based on Jerry Oppenheimer’s nonfiction novel of the same name. A biopic, the film was slated to follow the tumultuous life of Mattel employee Jack Ryan who ditched a job designing missiles at the Pentagon during the Cold War to join the toy-making monolith at the dawn of Barbie. While the script went through some obstacles when being shopped around initially, it apparently had a breakthrough around a month ago when a “very successful finance studio” expressed interest in making it. The project is currently on pause due to Trachtenberg’s passing, TMZ adds, though Casey said he is adamant to see the film through in her honor.
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