It looks like Universal Pictures still wants to be in business with Rupert Sanders, the director of Snow White and the Huntsman. The studio just aquired the screen rights to an unpublished book by Dean Unkefer called 90 Church: The True Story of the Narcotics Squad From Hell, for Sanders to direct.
According to Deadline, "The upcoming novel 90 Church refers to the address of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics when it was formed in New York City to combat organized crime and drug traffic in the mid-1960s through early ’70s. While the FBI refused even to acknowledge organized crime, 30 agents stood alone against a well-organized Mafia and vicious drug cartels. To survive against impossible odds, the agents used incredibly brutal and cunning tactics to make cases and bring the war to a stalemate. Using an ever-expanding network of criminal informants held together by secret immunity deals, the sinister reputation of 90 Church grew along with the rising body count. The book is fictionalized but based on true events, written by one of the agents who worked in the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. That bureau later merged with another and became the DEA."
I really like the concept and story behind this book; it isn't set to be released until May 13th 2013, but it sounds like it will make for a great movie. Producers Joe Roth and Palak Patel are currently out looking to hire a high-end screenwriter to write the script.
Does this sound like it will make for a good movie?
Source: Deadline (http://www.deadline.com/2012/08/universal-buys-90-church-for-rupert-sanders-and-roth-films-as-studio-ponders-huntsman-spinoff/)