Retirement On The Horizon, Author Don Winslow Sets Early Mystery Series ‘The Gentlemen’s Hour’ & ‘The Dawn Patrol’ At Netflix; Charlène Favier To Direct
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Netflix is adapting bestselling author Don Winslow’s novels The Dawn Patrol and The Gentlemen’s Hours for features.
Charlène Favier is aboard to direct, with Chernin Entertainment and The Story Factory’s Shane Salerno producing. They are out to high level writers to script the film.Deal comes as Winslow just released City on Fire, the first in a trilogy that he announced will be his swan song from novel writing after a long career of bestsellers.
He has numerous film and TV deals for his other works. The City on Fire series was acquired by Sony Pictures and Elizabeth Gabler’s 3000 label for north of $5 million.
Winslow also has The Border about to begin production as an FX series, after Fox acquired it for $6 million. Winslow separately set his Neal Carey novels with Knives Out helmer Rian Johnson for MRC and Peacock, and has the novel Satori in the works at Warner Bros with Appian Way.
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