Apple Makes Big Deal For Elliot Ackerman Novel ‘Sheepdogs’; Paramilitary Tale Mounted For Series By Playtone’s Tom Hanks & Gary Goetzman
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: In a strong year-end book deal, Apple Studios has paid near 7-figures for the Elliot Ackerman novel Sheepdogs for Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman to develop into a series.
The book will be published summer of 2025 by Alfred K. Knopf/Penguin Random House. Ackerman is a former Marine Corps special operations team leader whose books include Halcyon, Green On Blue and Waiting for Eden, and he cowrote with Admiral James Stavridis 2034 and 2054.
Hanks and Goetzman’s Playtone are coming off the acclaimed WWII series Masters of the Air, and they are gearing up for a sequel to Greyhound, with Hanks once again starring in the script he’s written and Aaron Schneider directing.
The first film was based on The Good Shepherd by C.S. Forester. Sheepdogs revolves around Skwerl and Cheese, two elite paramilitary soldiers down on their luck.
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