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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