Larry Beinhart's upcoming novel, SALVATION BOULEVARD, has been optioned for the screen by Mandalay
Independent Pictures, with George Ratliff set to write the screenplay and direct.
The novel, to be published this fall by Nation Books, concerns a private detective who confronts religious issues while investigating the death of a professor. According to Variety, "The exercise proves to be a clash of faiths: The detective is a born-again Christian, the dead man an atheist, the accused killer an Islamic foreign student and the D.A. is Jewish" and the book has a "satirical bent, targeting organized religion."
Beinhart's earlier novel novel American Hero was adapted for the screen in 1997 as the film Wag the Dog.
Independent Pictures, with George Ratliff set to write the screenplay and direct.The novel, to be published this fall by Nation Books, concerns a private detective who confronts religious issues while investigating the death of a professor. According to Variety, "The exercise proves to be a clash of faiths: The detective is a born-again Christian, the dead man an atheist, the accused killer an Islamic foreign student and the D.A. is Jewish" and the book has a "satirical bent, targeting organized religion."
Beinhart's earlier novel novel American Hero was adapted for the screen in 1997 as the film Wag the Dog.
