Warner Bros Sets Peter Landesman To Evolve Ross Macdonalds The Galton Situation

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros and Silver Pictures have set Peter Landesman to evolve The Galton Situation, among the game titles within the Ross Macdonald mystery series about private eye Lew Archer. Landesman will turn to reinvent the mystery series as Silver Pictures attempts to launch a franchise. The series was formerly converted into two movies Paul Newman performed Archer within the 1966 Warner Bros film Harper and 1975 film The Drowning Pool. The 1959 novel The Galton Situation was the eighth book within the series. Landesman, a NY Occasions Magazine foreign correspondent, most lately scripted The Mission for Warner Bros. That film is all about Operation Jaque, a daring save of 15 captives that incorporated former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt from FARC militants who moved the hostages around within the Colombian jungles a number of them being held as lengthy as fifteen years. That film has David O Russell circling as director, with Kaira Pitt being courted to star. Landesman also scripted a film according to former FBI #2 guy Mark Felt, who accepted he was the “Deep Throat” who assisted Woodward and Bernstein crack the Watergate conspiracy and finish Richard Nixon’s presidency. That project reaches Universal with Playtone creating. Around The Galton Situation, Joel Silver will produce and Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman is going to be executive producers. Silver will partner with Random House Films around the movie, and RHF mind Peter Gethers is professional creating with series privileges holder Stephen Whitened. Archer is really a private agent who cracked harmful cases in Los Angeles within the nineteen fifties and 60s. Within The Galton Situation, Archer is hired to find the lost heir towards the Galton fortune. His path leads him via a trail of murder, deceptiveness along with a tangle of secrets. Silver Pictures just teamed with Todd Phillips’ Eco-friendly Hat to create the reduced budget hit Project X, which is incorporated in the initial phases to be sequelized. Landesman is repped by CAA.