Variety has announced that a feature-length film adaptation of Irish ITW author Ken Bruen's crime novel BLITZ will be directed by Elliot Lester, with production slated in the first quarter of 2009. The novel was optioned by Lionsgate UK, Brad Wyman and Donald Kushner.BLITZ, which tells the story of a cop-killing serial killer hungering for infamy, joins LONDON BOULEVARD as the second Bruen option of note. William Monahan, the Oscar-winning scribe of The Departed, will direct his own adaptation of the novel. The film marks his debut as a director.
LONDON BOULEVARD involves the struggle of a London criminal who tries to go straight by working as a handyman for an actress. The book was recently nominated for the SNCF Prize of "Best Foreign Crime Novel" in France.
For more on the BLITZ adaptation, read the full Variety article here. For the latest on Ken Bruen and his fiction, please visit his website.
