EXCLUSIVE: Chad Stahelski, director of the John Wick franchise, has acquired the rights to best-selling author Jonathan Maberry’s Joe Ledger book series through his 87Eleven Entertainment Production company to develop for television.
Published by St. Martin’s Griffin, a Macmillan imprint, the Joe Ledger thriller series consist of 10 novels and various offshoots.
Its protagonist, Joe Ledger, is a psychologically-fractured Baltimore detective secretly recruited by the government to lead a new task force called the Department of Military Sciences to face off against terrorists using bleeding-edge science weapons.
Along with his combat dog, Ghost, his team of tier-one special operators, and the resources of the mysterious Mr. Church, Joe faces off against the threats no other team is able to stop. “I really loved reading the Joe Ledger series.
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