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Will GOD'S BANKERS be made into a film or miniseries?

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Gerald Posner
Feb 07, 2015
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With the great national launch of GOD's BANKERS a number of people have asked 'So, when is the TV or film on the book?"

 For those of you not in the business, rest assured, while anything is possible, there is a bit of luck and good fortune for something to go from print to small or big screen. Trisha, my wife who works with me on all my projects, and I know from personal experience.

 Five of my previous books were optioned. Some came tantalizing close to making it from print to screen. WARLORDS OF CRIME, was not simply optioned by a producer but bought by a major studio, Touchstone, which announced with great fanfare in the trade press that it was going to make an epic Triads meets the Godfather film. It never got made.

David Wolper, one of Hollywood's most prolific and best known producers (Roots, The Thorn Birds, L.A. Confidential), optioned CASE CLOSED. He was insistent that he had the power and determination to get it made. A talented screenwriter, Jonathan Rintels, was hired and di…

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