According to Variety, Robin Schorr‘s RCR Pictures has just optioned the feature film rights to Dennis Tafoya‘s crime novel, The Wolves of Fairmount Park. Marc Maurino has been hired to write the script, which follows “the drive-by shooting of two suburban teens, one of whom is the son of a police officer, outside of a Philadelphia drug den. The search for gunmen strains the community to its breaking point.”
Schorr is set to produce, with Dan Seligmann joining him. Tafoya‘s novel was published in 2010, which was welcomed to strongly positive reviews. In an effort to keep his book only in print, Tafoya refused to sell the film rights to his novel until, ultimately, the RCR producers won him over. With book-to-film adaptations being so common and sometimes not very good, I can see the Tafoya‘s reservations about the adaptation.
Maurino is just hitting Hollywood, as he recently sold the spec script Inside the Machine to CBS films, which was surprisingly bought two days after its was released. Although he has been offered several writing jobs in wake of this achievement, he chose Wolves as his next big writing assignment.
Have you read The Wolves of Fairmount Park? If so, does it warrant a film adaptation?