The Weinstein Company is looking to make networks an offer they can’t refuse, with Deadline revealing that the production house is set to shop around a TV adaptation of The Godfather author Mario Puzo’s final novel Omerta, with Antoine Fuqua (The Magnificent Seven) directing and Sylvester Stallone (Creed) starring as mob boss Raymonde Aprile.
The site is reporting that a pilot script and show bible are already in place for the event series courtesy of Justin Herber and Adam Hoff, and TWC is quickly putting together a writers room, with a showrunner and female lead expected to be in place soon. The project will mark Stallone’s first foray into television.
Omerta was published posthumously in 2000 and is the final book in Puzo’s mafia trilogy after The Godfather and The Last Don.
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Originally published April 30, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
