Apple TV+ is nearing a series order for In With The Devil, a 6-hour adaptation of a true crime memoir by James Keeene that has Taron Egerton set to star as the author and Richard Jewell’s Paul Walter Hauser in talks to join him as a suspected serial killer.
Michael R. Roskam will direct a script by Dennis Lehane, It will shoot in New Orleans.Keene was a young Chicago kid who was a stand out football player headed for a pro career when a few turns in the wrong direction caught him a decade long prison sentence with no chance of parole.
The son of a Chicago cop was offered by the prosecutor who put him behind bars the chance to be sprung from prison and a chance to redeem himself.
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