BLACKBIRD

A feature based on the life rights of Frank Olson

In 1953, U.S. Army biological-warfare scientist Frank Olson, who worked closely with the CIA, is covertly dosed with LSD by his colleagues during a retreat. Nine days later, he plunges to his death from a New York hotel window. Officially ruled a suicide, Olson’s death becomes the center of an enduring mystery involving the CIA’s secret mind-control experiments, an alleged government cover-up and a family’s decades-long pursuit of the truth.

Daniel Shafer, Tobey Maguire and Mark Ross developed the project for Sony Pictures with Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning writer David Auburn (PROOF).