SYNOPSIS

Written by Ron Bass, Swank will play Earhart in the formative stages of her career. George Putnam (Gere), a publisher and publicist, was engaged by society denizen Amy Guest to set up a daring nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. When Guest was talked out of trying to become the first woman to make the trip, she dispatched Putnam to find a female pilot, and to turn the flight into a media event. McGregor plays Gene Vidal, who has a passionate affair with Earhart.

PREVIEW NOTES

• Variety reports that Ewan McGregor has joined the project which is being produced by Ted Waitt, Lydia Dean Pilcher and Kevin Hyman, is shooting in Toronto. Don Carmody, Bass and Swank executive produce. - 2008-05-27
• Variety reports that Christopher Eccleston has joined the project. - 2008-06-12

FACT

Bass used Susan Butler's book "East to the Dawn," Mary Lovell's "The Sound of the Wings" and Elgin Long's "Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved" as primary resources for his research.