TransMedia Group Casting for 'Prescription For Death'

TransMedia Group Casting for 'Prescription For Death'

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- TransMedia Group (www.transmediagroup.com) said it is casting for actors to play starring roles in the film "Prescription For Death" depicting identical-twins who ran the nation's largest, deadliest pill mill operation in South Florida. The mills drew thousands of addicts from as far north as Ohio and west from Texas, while netting millions of dollars for Christopher and Jeffrey George currently in prison.

TransMedia CEO Tom Madden, a former NBC Programming VP, announced registered nurse Janet Colbert, founder of non-profit STOPPNOW (stop organized pill pushers now) www.stoppnow.com) will serve as technical advisor to the film.

"I think it's a very good script we could definitely enhance so viewers become emotionally involved," she said. "Besides wanting to expose those who could have stopped this, I've often thought if there was a way for these kids to see the lifelong suffering their parents go through upon their death, maybe they wouldn't take that first pill."

As a neonatal nurse at a busy children's hospital in Broward County Fl, Colbert saw firsthand the pill mill crisis unfolding when it became obvious to all the nurses that something was amiss with all the drug addicted babies they were seeing in their unit.

"Prescription For Death is an authentically engrossing tale that could dramatically show the full breadth of any actor's talent," said Madden.

"This is a brutally frank, monstrously true story of how the twins built a pill mill empire operating out of a chain of ostensibly legitimate pain management clinics until the eagles of justice swooped down and dragged them off to prison."

The screenplay contains intense scenes of extortion, kidnapping attempts, undercover and overt surveillance, money laundering, dramatic arrests, law enforcement machinations and courtroom drama that will fascinate moviegoers.

Prescription For Death has it all: a central plot right off the front pages of tabloid newspapers, fascinating sub-plots and an array of memorable events and characters drawn with authentic detail who will come chillingly to life on the big screen.

Madden said those developing the film have access to material that he believes not even Warner Bros has. Warner reportedly is developing a similar film based on an upcoming book "American Pain." The Prescription For Death material consists of 12,000 hours of transcript wire taps, seven hours of audio interviews from four of the major players and photos of the twin brothers from childhood to adulthood.

Contact: Tom Madden 561-750-9800 x2210; tmadden@transmediagroup.com

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