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Bruckheimer Films Hires New Writers for Apaches

October 12, 2009

Variety reports that Jerry Bruckheimer Films has hired Sean O'Keefe and Will Staples to adapt Lorenzo Carcaterra's novel "Apaches," about a group of renegade cops.

The Disney-based producer has been developing the project since 1997, when the studio picked up the book for Bruckheimer to produce for Touchstone as a potential franchise, beating out Warner Bros. and Paramount in a bidding war for the property.

The script for Apaches 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.

Carcaterra followed up "Apaches" with the sequel novel "Chasers," published by Ballantine in 2007.

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COMMENTS (6)

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Nick Kitt

October 13, 2009

This is a great book. Sort of like a "Magnificent Seven" of retired cops,each with a special skill. And like that great western from 1960,as well as the novel itself,not all of them survive. An inspired cast could really pull this off.

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joe asylo

October 13, 2009

does take in batman turf.

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WCB

October 13, 2009

At first, when they said "Gotham", I also thought they meant Batman. But there's actually a place called Gotham City, though I don't think it's in New York.

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Egu

October 13, 2009

I imagine Burt Reynolds in the leading role

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Micah

October 13, 2009

I guess whoever typed this up had bats on the brain.

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b gordon

October 13, 2009

i read the book along time ago and what i most remember is the evil heartless ***** who ran a baby farm,so she could stuff drugs into freshly dead babies and traffic them into the us(who's gonna check a sleeping baby).