Fox & New Regency to Adapt John Grisham's THE RACKETEER

According to The Hollywood Reporter, John Grisham's latest legal thriller is set to get the big-screen treatment.

Fox 2000 and New Regency have officially picked up the rights to THE RACKETEER, released last October, with Double Feature Films producing. Daniel Espinosa will direct.

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The book is officially described as:

"Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only four active federal judges have been murdered.

Judge Raymond Fawcett has just become number five.

Who is the Racketeer? And what does he have to do with the judge's untimely demise? His name, for the moment, is Malcolm Bannister. Job status? Former attorney. Current residence? The Federal Prison Camp near Frostburg, Maryland.

On paper, Malcolm's situation isn't looking too good these days, but he's got an ace up his sleeve. He knows who killed Judge Fawcett, and he knows why. The judge's body was found in his remote lakeside cabin. There was no forced entry, no struggle, just two dead bodies: Judge Fawcett and his young secretary. And one large, state-of-the-art, extremely secure safe, opened and emptied.

What was in the safe? The FBI would love to know. And Malcolm Bannister would love to tell them. But everything has a price-especially information as explosive as the sequence of events that led to Judge Fawcett's death. And the Racketeer wasn't born yesterday..."

As of now, no writer is attached to the project - but the studios' hunt is reportedly well underway.

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