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The story will showcase the eccentric life of "GQ" and "Esquire" magazine founder David Smart. He is known for his extreme germ phobia, including creating a series of instructional films on health and hygiene, as well as living the life of a womanizer. Josh Lucas will play a fictional FBI agent who investigates Smart.

Each year, 60,000 people from around the globe gather in a dusty windswept Nevada desert to build a temporary city, collaborating on large-scale art and partying for a week before burning a giant effigy in a ritual frenzy. Rooted in principles of self-expression, self-reliance and community effort, Burning Man has grown famous for stirring ordinary people to shed their nine-to-five existence and act on their dreams. Spark takes us behind the curtain with Burning Man organizers and participants, revealing a year of unprecedented challenges and growth. When ideals of a new world based on freedom and inclusion collide with realities of the "default world," we wonder which dreams can survive.

Follows Steve McQueen's life from humble beginnings in the Midwest to the pinnacle of Hollywood and ultimately to his untimely death at the age of 50 in Mexico. Also features the meeting and issues that evolved between McQueen and Charles Manson.

The project will primarily chronicle Steve McQueen's Hollywood career, which began in 1956 when the Indiana native got his break in the film Somebody Up There Likes Me. The book, which was published in paperback in October, also delves into McQueen's offscreen penchant for motorcycles, fast cars and drugs.

Sunny Jacobs, in her 20s, and her husband, Jesse Tafero, are convicted of the fatal shooting of two law enforcement officers based on the false testimony of the man who actually committed the murders.