EXCLUSIVE: Through their recently launched production company Story House, Joe Forte and Meg LeFauve have inked an exclusive, multi-year deal with Netflix to write and direct for the streamer on the film side.
The deal, and company launch, are the culmination of a 30-year partnership in Hollywood, where Forte and LeFauve have written for such actors as Jodie Foster and Harrison Ford and for many studios, including Pixar, Fox, Netflix Animation, Warner Brothers and Paramount. Partners in life and in business, they have been writing as a team since 2020, across both film and television, for studios such as Sony, Amazon MGM Studios and A&E.
In addition to writing the Harrison Ford thriller Firewall, Forte is known for directing The Man Who Saved Ben Hur, a feature doc on assistant director Johnny Alarimo and his career built against the backdrop of Hollywood’s Golden Age, which is currently streaming on Prime Video.
Nominated for an Academy Award for co-writing Pixar’s Inside Out, LeFauve’s other writing credits include Inside Out 2, Captain Marvel, The Good Dinosaur and My Father’s Dragon. Currently, she also co-hosts the podcast The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna alongside the Emmy-nominated McKenna.
Forte and LeFauve are represented by Paradigm, Zaftig Films, and David Krintzman at the law firm of Yorn, Levine, Barnes.
