Overview
- Sony Pictures, which consolidated the long-split screen rights Tuesday, picked up a package to develop The Executioner as a film at the studio.
- Shane Black will write the script with Anthony Bagarozzi and Charles Mondry and may direct.
- The package pairs Black again with producer Joel Silver and adds Angry Films’ Don Murphy and Susan Montford.
- No casting or start date has been announced, and any star talk in coverage remains speculation.
- Based on Don Pendleton’s 464-book pulp series about sniper Mack Bolan, past attempts with William Friedkin and a 2014 Warner Bros. setup collapsed until Sony unified the rights.