Saving Washington Film Rights Optioned by Producer of HBO's Big
Little Lies
The lost story of "America's 400 Spartans"--an army of unexpected
heroes who changed the course of history.
On a marshy Brooklyn battlefield on August 27, 1776, four hundred men
from Baltimore, Maryland assembled to do battle against a vastly
superior British army. Seemingly overnight, these young soldiers had
matured from naïve teenagers to perhaps the most important, yet most
forgotten, citizen soldiers in all of American history: "America's 400
Spartans."
Saving Washington follows young Joshua Bolton and his childhood friend
Ben Wright, a freed black man, as they witness British tyranny
firsthand, become enraptured by the cause, and ultimately enlist to
defend their new nation in a battle that galvanized the American nation
on the eve of its birth.
Chris Formant's gripping tale blends real-life historical figures and
events with richly developed fictional characters in a multi-dimensional
world of intrigue, romance, comradeship, and sacrifice, transporting us
two-and-a-half centuries back in time to the bustling streets of
Baltimore and the bloody, smoke-filled carnage of battle in Brooklyn.