Corona | Coming Attractions

Here's an example of how long Hollywood can keep a project in development hell. Way back in 1997 Walt Disney Pictures bought the movie rights to Lorenzo Carcaterra's novel Apaches, a thriller about a group of retired NYC cops that assemble their own vigilante strike team to take down criminals that are above the law.

Carcaterra's novel has been stuck in Disney development hell ever since even though one of the town's major guys, Jerry Bruckheimer, has the rights. Now Disney is going to see if they can give it another go by hiring screenwriters Sean O'Keefe and Will Staples to write a new draft.

Carcaterra wrote a sequel to Apaches called Chasers which was published in 2007. Sleepers, the 1996 drama that starred Brad Pitt and Jason Patric, is based on another Carcaterra novel. He's also gone on to write a couple dozen episodes of Law & Order over the years.

The new screenwriters, O'Keefe and Staples, have some heat to their names thanks to an action script called World's Most Wanted which is set up over at Universal and a drama called The Cruelest Miles.