Media Murder for Monday

MOVIES

20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment are teaming up with Dennis Lehane to script Silk Road, based on the true story of a young kid arrested for putting out a hit on the clients of an online bazaar he created where they could buy illegal goods, including drugs or contract killings.

Nicole Kidman, Guy Pearce and Hugo Weaving will headline the cast of the new independent thriller, Strangerland. The story centers on a couple whose relationship is "pushed to the brink when their two teenage children disappear into the remote Australian desert and they are forced to confront the mystery of their children's fate."

A trailer was released for Liam Neeson's new thriller Non-Stop. Neeson plays a Air Marshall traveling on an overnight international flight that is hijacked.

Word & Film created a Holiday Movie Adaptation Guide to keep track of "a delicious assortment of page-to-screen adaptations diverse enough to please nearly any predilection."

Millenniun Films released a teaser poster for their upcoming adaptation of Marcus Sakey's Good People, starring James Franco, Kate Hudson as a couple who are plunged into trouble when they abscond with their dead tenant's money. (Hat tip to Omnimystery News.)

TELEVISION

ABC is going to try recreating the literary hardboiled world of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe in a pilot that received a development order. The possible new series is from the team of Castle crreator Andrew Marlowe and feature producer Michael De Luca (Captain Phillips, Fifty Shades Of Grey).

CBS is adapting Koethi Zan's thriller The Never List for television. (Hat tip to Omnimystery News.)

Fox is adapting the BBC America murder mystery Broadchurch for American audiences, but planning on keeping British star David Tennant (Doctor Who) as the lead, although he'll use an American accent.

20th Century Fox Television also picked up adaptation rights for the Norwegian thriller Mammon. The original series follows an investigative journalist who uncovers evidence of massive financial fraud that points to his own brother and the highest levels of Norwegian society.

Omnimystery News reported that HBO's upcoming series True Detective has been given a premiere date of January 12th, 2014. The show follows Louisiana State Police Detectives Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Martin Hart (Woody Harrelson), brought in to revisit a homicide case they worked in 1995.

As TV Guide reports, Walter White may have died on Breaking Bad, but there's a possibility he and the entire cast could return to the small screen soon reprising their roles in the prequel spin-off series, Better Call Saul.

After only three weeks into the new season, NBC cancelled the remake of Ironside starring Blair Underwood as the wheelchair-bound detective.

Over at Fox, new series Brooklyn Nine-Nine fared much better, getting an extended season order for 22 episodes and also a shot at following the Super Bowl.

Fans of CSI actor George Eads, who were wondering where he'd disappeared, can relax knowing he is returning to the show after "arguing with a writer."

PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO

One of the features on CBS This Morning yesterday was Brad Meltzer, talking about his book History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time.

On this week's Crime & Science Radio, Jan Burke interviews Marcia Clark about "Judging Evidence."

THEATER

The first-ever play adapted from a John Grisham novel, A Time to Kill, opened on Broadway yesterday. The courtroom drama revolves around a young, idealistic lawyer defending a black man for taking the law into his own hands following an unspeakable crime committed against his young daughter.