Skydance has acquired the rights to Mickey Spillane’s and Max Allan Collins’ Mike Hammer franchise with plans to develop and produce the bestselling book series into a feature film based on the iconic character.
No writers, directors or actors are attached at this time. Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger will produce along with Guymon Casady, Benjamin Forkner, and Ken F.
Levin. Max Allan Collins will executive produce with Jane Spillane serving as co-producer. Carin Sage will oversee the project for Skydance.
Hammer is the protagonist of a series of hard boiled detective novels, starting with the novel I, the Jury published in 1947 and becoming one of the most popular figures of the genre.
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