Coming off the back of the hit Wolverine swansong Logan, Deadline is reporting that director James Mangold will reunite with 20th Century Fox for his next project, an adaptation of Don Winslow’s upcoming crime novel The Force.
The site reports that the book “tells the story of a corrupt detective in the NYPD’s most elite crime-fighting unit. Sgt. Denny Malone is forced to choose between his family, his partners and his life. To stop the city’s long-simmering racial tensions from exploding, he must reconcile the idealistic guardian he still views himself to be with the corrupt cop he’s become. He then finds himself attacked on all sides: Harlem drug gangs, the mob he’s in bed with, the brother cops he’s about to destroy, the mayor’s office who fears what he knows and who he can implicate, the relentless federal investigators who want to put him behind bars but, most of all, his own demons.”
Fox is looking to secure a writer to work alongside Mangold on the adaptation, which is being produced by Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions and Shane Salerno of The Story Factory. Scott is also attached to direct an adaptation of another of Winslow’s novels, The Cartel, which offers a fictional take on the Sinaloa drug kingpin El Chapo.
