EXCLUSIVE: Emmy winner David E. Kelley, who created Netflix‘s The Lincoln Lawyer based mostly on Michael Connelly’s novels, helps convey one other well-liked e-book character by a bestselling creator to the streamer. The prolific writer-producer has teamed with Harlan Coben to adapt his Myron Bolitar novels as a TV sequence, sources inform Deadline.
Along with writing the script, Kelley and Coben are govt producing the potential sequence with David E. Kelley Prods president Matthew Tinker. Netflix declined remark.
The mission has been a precedence for Netflix when it re-upped its general cope with Coben in 2022. The unique pact gave the streamer entry to 14 Coben books to turn into English-language and foreign-language sequence in addition to movies. The 2022 pact added 12 extra titles: Coben’s signature 11-book Myron Bolitar sequence in addition to the stand-alone 2021 novella Win, for an adaptation as an ongoing, U.S.-based sequence.
The books’ title character is a fomer high basketball player-turned-owner of company representing sports activities stars and celebrities. There have been makes an attempt to adapt the novels prior to now, together with as a characteristic, with Coben significantly protecting of the character.
“Definitely Myron Bolitar is expensive to my coronary heart,” he advised Deadline on the time of his Netflix deal renewal in 2022. “I’ve written 34 books, a 3rd of them concerned Myron Bolitar; he’s my most prized possession, and I’m actually blissful now that it’s within the Netflix camp, in order that we are able to work arduous on making it proper. It’s one of many properties I’ve in all probability been a little bit bit extra treasured about. It’s simpler to maneuver a narrative like The Stranger or Keep Shut to a different nation. Myron being a sequence character that folks learn again and again, takes a little bit bit extra care and needs to be within the USA.”
Netflix has turned diversifications of Coben novels into considerably of a cottage business with a slew of reveals in 4 languages throughout totally different international locations. They embody one of many streamer’s hottest sequence, the British Idiot Me As soon as, in addition to Keep Shut, The Stranger, The Harmless, Gone for Good, Maintain Tight, The Woods and the just lately launched Lacking You.
This month alone, two extra Coben restricted sequence are being launched, the Polish-language Simply One Look, which debuted March 5, and the Spanish-language Caught popping out March 26.
Netflix’s first U.S.-based Coben adaptation, the restricted sequence I Will Discover You, simply forged Sam Worthington because the lead.
At Netflix, Kelley additionally just lately created and govt produced the restricted sequence A Man In Full starring Jeff Daniels. Moreover, he has the Apple TV+ authorized thriller Presumed Harmless returning for a second season, and upcoming Apple TV+ restricted sequence Margo’s Bought Cash Troubles starring Elle Fanning.
