Deadline is reporting that Netflix is looking to pair up Chinatown screenwriter Robert Towne with David Fincher (Mindhunter) to develop a pilot script for a prequel to the classic 1974 film starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. According to the site, the as-yet-untitled Chinatown prequel would focus on a younger version of Nicholson’s private investigator […]
Mel Gibson teams with Chinatown screenwriter for Dancing Bear
Deadline is reporting that Mel Gibson is teaming with legendary Chinatown screenwriter Robert Towne for Dancing Bear, a TV adaptation of James Crumley’s hardboiled crime novel. Set in Montana, Dancing Bear follows Milo Dragovitch, a part time detective who becomes entangled with a cast of unsavory characters in a web of criminal conspiracies, blackmail, land grabs, […]
