Exclusive: Director Michael Mann, after film triumphs from The Insider to Collateral, Last of the Mohicans, Heat and numerous others and TV shows like Miami Vice and Crime Story, is ready to take the leap and become the rare elite filmmaker to launch his own publishing imprint. Deadline revealed in 2016 the deal he made with HarperCollins for Michael Mann Books. Hewing close to what he knows in launching feature films, Mann has issued a trailer for the imprint’s first book, Hunting Leroux. The book, which covers the hunt for the shadowy criminal mastermind Paul Calder Leroux, was written by Elaine Shannon. She and Mann collaborated years ago on the NBC miniseries Drug Wars: The Kiki Camarena Story, and Mann has written the forward for her book, which will be published February 19.
Good news for fans of the Mann-directed crime classic Heat. The second book coming from Mann’s imprint...
Good news for fans of the Mann-directed crime classic Heat. The second book coming from Mann’s imprint...
- 1/18/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Director Michael Mann (Heat, Last of the Mohicans) hasn't made a film since his 2015 cybercrime film Blackhat. It wasn't his best film, but for the most part, I'm a fan of most of the films that Mann has made in his career. It looks like the director has found his next project, and it will be based on the true story of criminal mastermind Paul Le Roux. Mann picked up the film and television rights to the book, so this project could either be adapted for film or TV.
The book was written by investigative reporter Elaine Shannon and it details the life and crimes of Le Roux, who was "the head of an array of ruthless transnational criminal enterprises. Linked to Iran, North Korea and terrorist groups, Le Roux has been described as one of the most dangerous transnational criminals of the 21st century."
La Roux was also a...
The book was written by investigative reporter Elaine Shannon and it details the life and crimes of Le Roux, who was "the head of an array of ruthless transnational criminal enterprises. Linked to Iran, North Korea and terrorist groups, Le Roux has been described as one of the most dangerous transnational criminals of the 21st century."
La Roux was also a...
- 4/16/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Exclusive: In a deal firmed as an electrifying criminal murder trial unfolds, HarperCollins – under the publishing imprint established by filmmaker Michael Mann — has preemptively acquired publishing rights to a book Elaine Shannon has written about the transnational organized crime figure Paul Le Roux. Mann has simultaneously closed a deal for film and television rights to the book.
Shannon, an investigative reporter who has written for Time and Newsweek, wrote the 1988 acclaimed book Desperados, which Mann turned into the Emmy-winning NBC miniseries Drug Wars: The Camarena Story, a chronicle of the 1985 torture and murder of undercover DEA agent Kimi Camarena by drug lords in Mexico.
The saga of Le Roux has a similar sweep. He was the head of an array of ruthless transnational criminal enterprises. Linked to Iran, North Korea and terrorist groups, Le Roux has been described as one of the most dangerous transnational criminals of the 21st century.
Shannon, an investigative reporter who has written for Time and Newsweek, wrote the 1988 acclaimed book Desperados, which Mann turned into the Emmy-winning NBC miniseries Drug Wars: The Camarena Story, a chronicle of the 1985 torture and murder of undercover DEA agent Kimi Camarena by drug lords in Mexico.
The saga of Le Roux has a similar sweep. He was the head of an array of ruthless transnational criminal enterprises. Linked to Iran, North Korea and terrorist groups, Le Roux has been described as one of the most dangerous transnational criminals of the 21st century.
- 4/11/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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