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Novel 'Apaches' to finally hit the big screen?
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Jerry Bruckheimer has been trying to bring Lorenzo Carcaterra's novel "Apaches" to the big screen for more than a decade, and it now looks like the project is finally moving ahead. At least the writing is.
Variety says Sean O'Keefe and Will Staples will adapt "Apaches," a crime story about a group of retired New York City cops putting together a renegade to bring down the city's most ruthless criminals.
O'Keefe and Staples are also developing several other projects, including "World's Most Wanted" and "The Cruelest Miles." They are among many writers who tried to take a stab at Carcaterra's ...
Jerry Bruckheimer Taps New Duo in Attempt to Adapt Apaches
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Apparently power producer Jerry Bruckheimer has been attempting to adapt Lorenzo Carcaterra's novel Apaches since 1997 when Disney beat out Paramount Pictures and Warner Brothers in a huge bidding war for the property. While writers like Marshall Todd (Bad Boys II), David Klass ...
Bruckheimer Hires Scriptwriters for Apaches
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Back in 1997, my favourite producer, Mr Jerry Bruckheimer bought the film rights to Lorenzo Carcaterra’s book, ‘Apaches’. Carcaterra has previously brought us the novel ‘Sleepers’ which was then turned into an amazing movie by director Barry Levinson. Bruckheimer has had a few different screenwriters give the novel a going over to see if they could turn the book into a movie. So far no one has impressed him and it’s sat on a shelf for the past 12 years.
All that may change though as Variety are reporting that he’s blown the dust off the project and hired Sean O’Keefe and Will Staples to see ...
O'Keefe & Staples Are "Apaches"
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Sean O'Keefe and Will Staples ("World's Most Wanted," "The Cruelest Miles") are the latest scribes to take a stab at adapting Lorenzo Carcaterra's novel "Apaches" for Jerry Bruckheimer Films says Variety.
The story will be loosely based on the gritty crime novel that revolves around a group of retired New York City cops who form a renegade unit to bring down the most vicious criminals in Gotham.
Bruckheimer has been developing the project since 1997 when he picked up the rights from Carcaterra who also penned "Sleepers". Marshall Todd ("Bad Boys II"), John Ridley, John Fusco ("The Forbidden Kingdom") and David Klass ("Walking Tall") ...
Jerry Bruckheimer Finally Gets Going On Apaches Adaptation
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... Bay a career. But Bruckheimer has spent 12 years trying to make a movie out of the novel Apaches , about renegade cops in New York City trying to take the law into their own hands. Disney picked up the rights to Lorenzo Carcaterra's novel in 1997, and a whole host of writers have tried to make a movie out of it since then. Now they're hoping they've found the guys who will finally make it happen-- Sean O'Keefe and Will Staples have been hired to adapt the novel, according to Variety , based on their two currently unproduced scripts, World's Most Wanted The Cruelest Miles . ...
Pun Deemed Best Title for Cruise/Diaz Movie
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The Tom Cruise/Cameron Diaz romantic-comedy-action film once titled Wichita, née Trouble Man, has a new title. Variety reports 20th Century Fox has decided that Knight & Day is an even better title than either of those previous, completely unrelated titles.
I'm just going to go out on a limb here and guess that the lead characters' names are something like Tom Knight and Cameron Day, and that they're also comically opposite in personality? Is that close? Did I just write a movie? I think I did.
