Chad Stahelski acquires rights to Jonathan Maberry’s Joe Ledger novels with plans to develop them as a TV sequence.
Deadline reviews that John Wick director Chad Stahelski has snagged the rights to Jonathan Maberry’s Joe Ledger novels with plans to develop it as a TV sequence by means of his 87Eleven Leisure manufacturing firm.
The Joe Ledger sequence presently consists of 10 novels and follows the titular character, a Baltimore detective who’s recruited into the Division of Army Sciences, a specialised entity of the US Authorities which offers with technologically superior threats to the US and the world at massive by terrorists. Such threats embody zombies, vampires, aliens, and robots. “I actually liked studying the Joe Ledger sequence. It’s an all-time epic motion sequence with intrigue, suspense, and such partaking characters,” stated Stahelski in a press release. “As I learn it, I may see the fast cinematic potential. I’m excited to be working with Jonathan to show it right into a TV sequence.”
Joe Ledger writer Jonathan Maberry added, “Chad’s profession, each behind and in entrance of the digicam, just about defines the sorts of issues I really like to look at. The Matrix, The Crow, John Wick – and so many others are solidly in my wheelhouse. And we’re each lifelong martial artists in addition to skilled pop-culture geeks. Once we sat down for the primary time to debate Joe Ledger, it was clear that he not solely learn the books however deeply and empathetically understood the characters. I don’t assume I’ve ever met somebody in Hollywood whose thoughts runs alongside tracks this much like my very own. He’s additionally a visionary and a hell of quite a lot of enjoyable. That is what they imply after they discuss ‘Hollywood magic.’“
This isn’t the primary time a sequence based mostly on the Joe Ledger novels has been within the works. Almost 15 years in the past, Javier Grillo-Marxuach was penning a Joe Ledger pilot script for ABC, however the studio didn’t transfer ahead with it.
The Joe Ledger sequence isn’t the one TV mission Stahelski has within the works. He’s additionally set to proceed the story of John Wick with John Wick: The Excessive Desk. Happening straight after the tip of John Wick: Chapter 4, the sequence goals to “mix new and outdated and thrust the Wick universe into a brand new age.” Stahelski will govt produce the mission alongside Keanu Reeves, and also will direct the pilot episode.
