Forced Perspective, The Boldest Partner for Film/TV IP Fund
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- Forced Perspective and The Boldest formed a strategic partnership to develop scalable, franchise-ready film and TV IP through a new IP fund, uniting producer Jazzy Collins and venture executive Saskia Clements
- The Anatomy of Courage, a sci-fi feature based on Peter Cawdron's 'First Contact' anthology novel, was announced as the partnership's first project and is described as 'Edge of Tomorrow' meets '1917'
- BlacKkKlansman screenwriters David Rabinowitz and Charlie Wachtel are attached to adapt the story, which follows military medic Dr. Christopher Walters as he gains the ability to communicate with alien invaders called the Novos
- Jazzy Collins compared Cawdron's independently built sci-fi audience to self-published successes like Andy Weir ('The Martian,' 'Project Hail Mary'), positioning the deal as a bet on proven but untapped literary IP
- The film is produced by Jazzy Collins, Shane Collins, and Saskia Clements, with Peter Cawdron and Sarah Cawdron executive producing
Why it matters: Forced Perspective and The Boldest are explicitly structuring this fund to convert self-published, audience-proven novels into long-running multimedia franchises rather than one-off films, a model that mirrors the path Andy Weir's books took to screen. Cawdron's built-in sci-fi readership gives the first project a lower marketing risk than a true original, while the Rabinowitz-Wachtel writing attachment signals studio-adjacent credibility for a venture-fund-backed adaptation.
