As a young man, Ted Geisel meets his future wife Helen, who encourages his fanciful drawings, and in the 1950s when Ted is struggling professionally, Helen helps inspire the children?s book that will become his first big hit, ?The Cat in the Hat.

This bio-pic could work but it fundamentally needs a clear and dramatic facing-hefty-challenges scenario. (Which the logline does not portray.) The logline, at the moment, only mildly refers to the author’s ‘struggles’. This is not enough to inspire a potential producer.

Here’s a suggested rewrite: “Ted is a young underemployed dreamer in the fifties. He doodles child-like drawings while barely paying his bills. But Helen encourages him to make a book with his art. Ted’s crippling self-doubt, however, threatens the completion of ‘The Cat in the Hat’.”