http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=848&ncid=790&e=6&u=/variety/
20020509/film_variety/film_dish_dc_1
After successfully mining the bookshelves for "L.A.
Confidential" and
"Wonder Boys," director Curtis Hanson has gone back to the
well with his Deuce Three partner Carol Fenelon.
They've optioned a series of four books by George P.
Pelecanos revolving around the D.C.-based private detective
Derek Strange, a 50ish African-American whose cases usually
involve the disenfranchised who reside in the beltway and are
set upon by drug dealers and other criminal types.
Pelecanos has already written two books in the series for
Little, Brown,
"Right As Rain" and "Hell To Pay," and he'll do two more that
are part of an option deal worked out between his and
Hanson's reps. They'll develop the properties before taking
them to a studio.
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