MUMBAI: After the recent restructuring at Warner Bros‘ worldwide feature production arm, Greg Silverman has struck his maiden big deal and acquired the rights of the upcoming Craig Zahler crime novel Mean Business On North Ganson Street. The production house is gearing to reunite the Django Unchained lead stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx for the big screen adaptation.
As reported, Zahler will be penning the script while DiCaprio and his Appian Way partner Jennifer Davisson Killoran will be financially backing the project as producers. Sarah Schechter is navigating the project for the studio.
The adaptation of the book which is in the process of being shopped to publishers will feature Dicaprio as the tough sleuth who is tipped off by a man about his missing wife and that she is a hooker who disappeared with his money. The story further takes course when the man commits a desperate tragic act right in the squad room and the disgraced detective is sent to a conflagration belt town called Victory, Missouri, where violent crime is skyrocketing. Partnered with an equally bad-assed detective who was demoted for publicly brutalizing a suspect (Foxx), the new partners get to do some real work. Police officers start showing up dead execution-style, and the cops think it might be open season on Victory‘s police department.
Foxx will recently be seen opposite Channing Tatum in the Roland Emmerich-directed White House Down, while DiCaprio next stars in the Martin Scorsese-directed The Wolf Of Wall Street. Foxx is repped by CAA, and he, DiCaprio and Appian Way are repped by LBI Entertainment.
