Playwright Hopes To Turn Incredible Story Of How He & His Husband Found Their Son Into A Movie

If you haven’t seen it already, there’s an article in the New York Times you really ought to read, all about how a baby found in a NY subway station became a gay couple’s son. It’s the sort of heartwarming tale that’s well worth a read, and as you take a look, I wouldn’t be surprised if you thought, ‘this should be a movie’.

Well, Peter Mecurio – one half of the couple involved in the story – obviously thought the same, as he’s turned the incredibly true tale in a screenplay called ‘Found (a True Story)’, which he’s hoping will be turned into a film.

Here’s an excerpt from the article to give you a taste: The story of how Danny and I were married last July in a Manhattan courtroom, with our son, Kevin, beside us, began 12 years earlier, in a dark, damp subway station.

Danny called me that day, frantic. “I found a baby!” he shouted. “I called 911, but I don’t think they believed me. No one’s coming. I don’t want to leave the baby alone. Get down here and flag down a police car or something.” By nature Danny is a remarkably calm person, so when I felt his heart pounding through the phone line, I knew I had to run.

When I got to the A/C/E subway exit on Eighth Avenue, Danny was still there, waiting for help to arrive. The baby, who had been left on the ground in a corner behind the turnstiles, was light-brown skinned and quiet, probably about a day old, wrapped in an oversize black sweatshirt.

In the following weeks, after family court had taken custody of “Baby ACE,” as he was nicknamed, Danny told the story over and over again, first to every local TV news station, then to family members, friends, co-workers and acquaintances. The story spread like an urban myth: You’re never going to believe what my friend’s cousin’s co-worker found in the subway. What neither of us knew, or could have predicted, was that Danny had not just saved an abandoned infant; he had found our son.

Click here to read the whole thing.