About BPI
Bumbershoot Productions, Inc. (BPI) was founded in 1980 by Texas maverick entrepreneur Johnny Langdon, who now runs Bumbershoot with film industry veterans, Carolyn Pfeiffer, Susan O'Connell and David Alper. Bumbershoot manages the acquisition of theatrical rights to literary properties and creates original material.
Bumbershoot's mission is to bring to life thought-provoking films that feature unique, energetic, and visionary characters who inspire and sometimes incite their audiences.
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
BPI acquired the film rights to the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces in October of 1982 and subsequently sold the rights to Paramount Pictures in 1993. Johnny Langdon is attached as an Executive Producer and Susan O'Connell as a Co-Producer.
THE PRO
Based on the novel by Mike Shropshire, and a screenplay by Gigi Gaston, THE PRO, is a comedy of ex-golf pro Del Bonnet, a natural born reprobate who wins redemption despite his best efforts to fight it at every turn. The novel was published to great acclaim in 2001 and released in paperback in 2002.
EMPIRE MAN
An original screenplay by writer/director Rod Taylor, EMPIRE MAN tells the story of a Texas underdog and self-made multi-millionaire who shows everyone how to awaken their "inner king" and ends up in the US Senate.
THE SHAREHOLDER
THE SHAREHOLDER is the tale of a wealthy "outsider" who shakes up the status quo and changes corporate America. Based on an original story by Johnny Langdon, Susan O'Connell, and Writer/Director Stefan Schaefer.
THE HIDDEN AGENDA
Writer/director Alan Rudolph has created an original dark comedy capturing a snapshot of rich and powerful men who get together in the safety and seclusion of a Northern California forest to ply themselves with alcohol and plot their perception of the future of the world.
CLAY ALLISON
Caught up in the corrupt and deadly Colfax County War in New Mexico in the 1870's, standup gunfighter Clay Allison finds himself in a life-threatening power struggle with the Santa Fe Ring, a deadly cabal of Dutch financiers, New York bankers and Washington power brokers and politicians. Based on true events, writer Mike Shropshire is developing this original screenplay for BPI.