A number of our titles have been licensed for development as feature films and televison projects. We often collaborate with agencies in Los Angeles.

 

"Syriana," for example, was based on Bob Baer's CIA memoir, SEE NO EVIL, and George Clooney won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Baer.

 

In 2008, "Body of Lies," a film directed by Sir Ridley Scott and starring Leo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, was based on the David Ignatius novel of the same name. Working again with Creative Artists Agency, we sold Ignatius's forthcoming novel, THE INCREMENT (Spring 2009) to Disney for deveopment by producer Jerry Bruckheimer.

 

"The Green Zone" is the tentative title of a forthcoming film by Paul Greengrass, the director of "The Bourne Supremacy" and "Flight 93," based on Rajiv Chandrasekaran's book, IMPERIAL LIFE IN THE EMERALD CITY.  The film stars Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear and Amy Adams, and is scheduled for release in 2009. (Greengrass is also developing a film version of THEY MARCHED INTO SUNLIGHT, David Maraniss's acclaimed book on the 1960s.)

 

Among other books now in development: Christopher Moore's series of Vincent Calvino novels based in Bangkok (Grove Atlantic is the publisher) by Steve Samuels, a producer of "Michael Clayton," Jeff Shesol's dual biography of Bobby Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, MUTUAL CONTEMPT, by "Monk" star Tony Shalhoub, and Michael Dobbs's revisonist history of the Cuban Missile Crisis, ONE MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT, by producer John Davis at Fox.