MOVIES
The Mark Gordon Company is producing an adaptation of Blood’s A Rover, the 2009 crime novel by L.A. Confidential author James Ellroy, which hopes to begin filming by the end of the year. The story is set in the underbelly of 1968 Los Angeles, where FBI agent and enforcer Dwight Holly has been tasked by FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to find those responsible for a brazen emerald heist in South L.A., the heart of the city’s Black Power movement.
Paramount and MGM have hired Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado (from Big Bad Wolves) to direct Bruce Willis in Death Wish, the revamp of the Charles Bronson vigilante franchise adapted from the Brian Garfield novel. Production will begin by the summer. The plot centers on an architect whose life is destroyed by a violent crime against his wife and daughter and takes to the streets to begin dispatching bad guys himself.
Caitriona Balfe, winner of a Saturn Award and and Golden Globe nomination for her role as Claire Beauchamp in Outlander, is joining a cast of young actors making an action/thriller movie funded through Kickstarter. Trust No One has been written by Simon Kassianides (who acted in the Bond film Quantum of Solace), who will both direct and act in the film when shooting begins this summer.
TELEVISION
Person of Interest alum Sarah Shah has been hired to star in CBS' Drew, playing the iconic sleuth from the Nancy Drew book series. The pilot finds Nancy now in her 30s and "serving as a detective for the NYPD, where she investigates and solves crimes using her uncanny observational skills, all while navigating the complexities of life in a modern world."
Great news for fans of the long-running NCIS series: CBS has renewed the show for another two years, and also signed star Mark Harmon to an additional two-year contract. Harmon also serves as executive producer of the the NCIS: New Orleans spinoff.
ABC announced the renewal of some fifteen shows, including How to Get Away With Murder and Quantico. American Crime and Castle are still on the bubble, with their futures up in the air.
Sons Of Anarchy's LaMonica Garrett has joined the cast of ABC’s straight-to-series conspiracy drama Designated Survivor, which stars Keifer Sutherland. Written by David Guggenheim, the story centers on lower level U.S. Cabinet member (Sutherland) who is suddenly appointed President of the United States after a catastrophic attack during the State of the Union kills everyone above him in the Presidential line of succession. Garrett will play Ritter, the president' Secret Service officer.
Jahmil French (The Divide) is set as a series regular on A&E’s hip-hop crime drama pilot The Infamous. They story centers on two complicated men on a collision course: an ambitious reformed gangster poised to break out of South LA and the LAPD detective hell-bent on taking him down. It will be set against real events in turbulent 1990s Los Angeles leading up to the LA Riots.
Michael Cristofer and Stephanie Corneliussen have been promoted to series regulars in the USA drama Mr. Robot. Rapper Joey Bada$$ and Chris Conroy will also be joining the cast, with the emcee playing Elliot's childhood friend and Conroy playing Joanna's new beau.
Covert Affairs star Piper Perabo is set as the female lead opposite Daniel Sunjata in ABC’s drama pilot Notorious.The project was inspired by the real-life relationship between famed criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos and long-time Larry King Live executive producer Wendy Walker. Notorious is described as "a provocative look at the interplay of criminal law and the media" that follows the professional and personal relationship between charismatic attorney Jake Gregorian (Sunjata) and powerhouse television producer Julia George (Perabo) as they attempt to control the media, the justice system, and ultimately each other."
British actor Paterson Joseph (HBO’s The Leftovers) and Malcolm Barrett (ABC’s Better Off Ted) have been cast in Time, an action adventure drama pilot from Supernatural creator Eric Kripke and The Shield creator Shawn Ryan. Described as Back to the Future meets Mission: Impossible, the series follows an unlikely trio who travel through time to battle a master criminal intent on altering the fabric of human history with potentially catastrophic results.
Jordana Brewster (of the Fast and Furious films) has signed on to Fox's Lethal Weapon pilot. In the TV reboot of the film, Brewster will play Dr. Mauren Cahill, a no-nonsense LAPD hostage negotiator and its in-house therapist, serving as an emotional support system for cops and handling the occasional tough case. Brewster will star alongside Damon Wayans, who plays detective Roger Murtaugh, who's recently suffered a heart attached and has to avoid stress.
Vegas alum Taylor Handley will be a series regular opposite Natalie Martinez and Caitlin Stasey in Fox’s drama pilot A.P.B., from writer David Slack and Len Wiseman. Inspired by the July New York Times Magazine article “Who Runs the Streets of New Orleans,” A.P.B. explores what happens when an enigmatic tech billionaire purchases a troubled police precinct in the wake of a loved one’s murder.
Universal Cable Productions is developing The Von Bülow Affair, a scripted true-crime series based on the book by William Wright about the infamous attempted-murder trial of British socialite Claus von Bülow.
National Geographic Channel landed the winning bid for The
Black 22s, a drama series from writer Paul Guyot (TNT’s The Librarians) and Selma star David Oyelowo. Written by Guyot, who will serve as showrunner, The Black 22s is based on the true story of a brilliant African-American detective and one of America’s first all-black police squads in St. Louis who battled the gangland killers of Prohibition even as they are set up to fail by their own bosses.
PODCASTS/RADIO/VIDEO
Richard Price, author of the The Whites (recently nominated as a LA Times Book Prize finalist), stopped by NPR's Fresh Air show to talk about haunted cops and cases they couldn't close.
Libby Fischer Hellmann joined CrimeFiction.FM to discuss the fifth installment in her Ellie Foreman Mystery series, Jump Cut.
Suspense Radio Inside Edition welcomed four bestselling authors including Jon Land, D.P. Lyle, Lisa Lutz, and Blue Cole.
Author Philip Donlay was a guest on CrimeFiction FM to discuss the latest book, Pegasus Down, in his series with Donovan Nash and Dr. Lauren McKenna.
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