Dennis Lehane

A young gangster climbs through the ranks during the Prohibition era.

Dreamworks has picked up Mystic River and Gone, Baby, Gone novelist Dennis Lehane’s latest after a heated bidding war. The psychological thriller looks to be the next in Lehane’s long-list of big screen adaptations.

Adaptation of the upcoming novel from Mystic River author Dennis Lehane, who will also write the screenplay. DreamWorks acquired the rights after a heated bidding war with several studios. It is described as a Hitchcockian thriller set in Boston.

Gone Girl-like psychological thriller alternately unreliably narrated by a paranoiac and slightly agoraphobic woman and her con artist husband who is being hunted by some very bad guys over a botched venture capital swindle.

Logline: A black plainclothes Boston policeman is mistakenly beaten by his fellow officers, resulting in a shocking coverup and trial.

A Brooklyn bartender funnels cash to local gangsters through “money drops” until he finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and becomes entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood’s past.

A Brooklyn bartender funnels cash to local gangsters through “money drops” until he finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and becomes entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood’s past.

Logline: Centers on a hitman who deals with targets who work in high finance.

Logline: Based on the true story of Ross Ulbricht, a young kid who created the online bazaar “Silk Road” where anything from illegal drugs and guns, to hacked passwords and hit man services could be purchased.

“Shutter Island” scribe to pen the script.

A review of the week’s TV news!

Logline: A young gangster climbs through the ranks during the Prohibition-era.

Dennis Lehane’s new novel begins to make big moves.

Logline: A Vietnam veteran returns home and finds himself caught in a love triangle.

Logline: A group of roommates kill a man they thought was a killer, sending them all down a dangerous criminal path.

Logline: Story centers on a Florida salvage expert (Travis McGee), searching for his ex, goes to Grenada where he tangles with a sinister real estate developer, and falls for a mysterious woman hired to impersonate the missing girlfriend.

Logline: A Brooklyn bartender funnels cash to local gangsters through “money drops” until he finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and becomes entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood’s past.