I ran into writer-director Audrey Wells at a premiere this week and she was excited about prepping the shoot of “The Fugees,” a project she has been developing at Universal, and which she and producers Kathleen Kennedy and Scott Stuber have taken back in turnaround.
It’s what one might call a passion project.
The story has no stars, African kids and is set in Georgia. But Wells (“Under the Tuscan Sun”)
believes in it deeply. “The Fugees” refers to a team of refugee soccer players, put together by a Jordanian (woman!) coach who forms a team made up of boys from wartorn parts of Africa – Sudan, Somalia, etc.