MAYDAY 109

Decades before he would be elected President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, an illness-prone young Harvard graduate, enlisted in the United States Navy during World War II to prove to his father that he could live up to the illustrious Kennedy name.

On his first active-duty mission, captaining American PT Boat 109 in the South Pacific, Kennedy's boat was rammed and sliced in half by a Japanese destroyer, plunging the 25-year-old into a desperate struggle to escort his crew to safety, and survive.

Evan Kilgore and Samuel Franco penned the feature screenplay, Mayday 109, after extensive research on this astounding and largely-unknown true survival story, in essence the "origin" of the man the world knows as JFK.

The project lit up the Hollywood spec market, and is currently in the early stages of packaging and pre-production.