Jerry Bruckheimer eyes new writers for Apaches
Story by Jack Foley
JERRY Bruckheimer Films has stepped up its efforts to try and bring Lorenzo Carcaterra’s acclaimed novel Apaches to the big screen.
The Disney producer has been attempting to get the project up and running since 1997, when he beat Warner Bros and Paramount in a bidding war for the novel’s rights.
He has now hired Sean O’Keefe and Will Staples to adapt it for the big screen, according to Variety, after several big names have tried and failed.
The book focuses on a group of renegade cops who unite to bring down Gotham’s most vicious criminal.
Carcaterra also wrote the novel Sleepers, which was turned into a movie starring Brad Pitt and Dustin Hoffman.
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