Robert Zemeckis To Direct The Interestingly Titled ‘Marwencol’

BACK TO THE FUTURE director Robert Zemeckis, who found success earlier this year with the Denzel Washington starrer FLIGHT, looks like he has locked his next project. He will take to a film revolving around a man with severe memory loss in MARWENCOL over at Universal, which is actually based on an existing documentary of the same name which came out in 2010. The doc. was based on the case of Mark Hogencamp, who suffered from memory loss after being beaten up by a gang of teenagers.

Zemeckis is apparently looking in the direction of Leonardo DiCaprio for the lead in the film.

Here’s the full story:

The beating Hogancamp suffered at the hands of five teenagers was so severe that it left him in a coma that lasted nine days. When he emerged, he had no memory of his life, his friends or his family. As a form of therapy, he began building a one-sixth scale model of a World War II-era Belgian village in his backyard, replete with figures made in the image of him, his friends, and, shockingly to some, his attackers. While the process mends his mind to a certain extent, it also lets him escape into a fantasy world in which he creates various scenarios with the figurines. The documentary, which ended up on many best-of lists, also showed how fragile Hogancamp’s world was when the New York art scene became interested in his work and wanted to display it to the public.