‘The Fighter’ Producer Keith Dorrington Partners With IW Group on Adoption Drama ‘Hou Yi’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Writer and producer Keith Dorrington has teamed with multicultural ad agency IW Group to produce the China-set adoption drama “Hou Yi.” Inspired by Dorrington’s experience working in China during the 1990s, the story chronicles an American businessman’s unlikely adoption of a three-year-old orphan girl named Hou Yi. “Hou Yi” marks IW Group’s venture into film development.
Dorrington is best known for his work on the “The Fighter” starring Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale, and directed by David O.
Russell. Dorrington was an executive producer on the Academy Award-winning film and received a story by credit. “Bringing Hou Yi to the screen has been a deeply personal mission of mine for over two decades.
I’m thrilled to take this important step in making that happen,” said Dorrington, who will executive-produce the film based on his original screenplay. “This story means the world to me because it is inspired by the events surrounding my own daughter’s adoption.
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