The Tracking Board’s Daily Debrief (11.15.16)

John Wick Writer and Southpaw Producers Hit Town With Hot New Action Thriller Pitch Endure

TB has confirmed that screenwriter Derek Kolstad is teaming up with the Riche brothers to hit the town the week after Thanksgiving with a hot new feature pitch based on Tim Lebbon’s novel Endure, and we’ve got the list of the first buyers lining up to hear it inside.

YA Piracy Epic Plunder Creates Waves in the Film and TV Rights Markets

In the style of great adventure classics like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Treasure Island, a new book about the golden age of pirates, Plunder, is hitting the film and television markets in a big way. The book is co-authored by Pat Croce and Adam Slutsky.

Paramount Nabs the Rights to The Green Hornet, Gavin O’Connor Set to Direct

The ’60s TV action hero series The Green Hornet is coming to the big screen… again. Paramount Pictures and Chernin Entertainment acquired the rights to the show and are looking to give a makeover to the adaptation with Gavin O’Connor in the director’s chair.

More News From Around The Web

• Laurence Fishburne will star alongside Royalty Hightower in Ruby In Murdertown, a crime thriller that marks the feature directorial debut of Leah Rachel, who wrote the script. (Deadline)

• Good Deed Entertainment has acquired all North American rights for The Runaround and will theatrically release the comedy starring J.K. Simmons and Emile Hirsch in 2017. (The Hollywood Reporter)

• Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill are re-teaming for The Ballad of Richard Jewell, a drama about the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing with O.J.: Made in America‘s Ezra Edelman set to direct as his first narrative feature. (/Film)

• Married creator Andrew Gurland has a new comedy project in the works at NBC. The untitled comedy for the network follows “a happily married man whose level-headed wife helps him manage some of the more complicated female relationships in his life.” (Splitsider)

• The PGA announced that Irwin Winkler will be honored with the Producers Guild of America’s 2017 David O. Selznick Achievement Award. The award recognizes a body of work that includes such modern classics as Raging Bull, Goodfellas, and Rocky. (Deadline)

• BBC America has ordered eight episodes of drama Killing Eve from Phoebe Waller-Bridge for a 2018 debut. The thriller will revolve around a psychopathic assassin and the woman tasked with hunting her down. (Variety)

• The new series McMafia is coming to AMC and BBC Worldwide North America. Based on a book that was called an organized crime version of Fast Food Nation, McMafia is an epic drama series set in the international world of organized crime. (Den of Geek)