Grey Eagle Films/TV is an independent film production company exclusively developing the literary properties of iconic American author Warren Adler (The War of the Roses, Random Hearts). Learn more about The Warren Adler Collection.
Properties in Development
Current Slate from Grey Eagle Films/TV
Amherst
Television
Serialized, dark-comedy based on Warren Adler’s novel The Womanizer.
Produced by: Grey Eagle Films/TV
Allen Harris is a pillar of the community. A reputable lawyer esteemed by peers and clients, a respected family man adored by his wife, Alice Harris and their children. As the epitome of success and accomplishment, Allen sits on the prestigious board of the University of Amherst, an appointment that gives him access to the crème de la crème of local society and puts him in the enviable position of being groomed as the university’s next President.
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The series will take a satirical deep dive into the politics of power, the hot button issues of ethics and impropriety on a college campus, and will expose what both individuals and a community are willing to sacrifice in order to maintain their well-kept and seemingly immaculate halls of privilege.
Contact:
Jonathan R. Adler, CEO
Email: JonathanRAdler@greyeaglefilms.com
Phone: 301-252-0069
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Residue
Feature Film
Produced by Grey Eagle Films/TV
A firebombing of a black church in Brooklyn that was once a synagogue sets off a chain reaction of international intrigue and bloody violence. A prominent Wall Street firm sends Ben Silverberg, its young lawyer, to help the church pro bono in their insurance claim. In a concealed area now exposed by the fire in the basement of the church, the pastor has discovered three trunks filled with gold and precious jewels worth millions.
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Writer / Director Attached: Vondie Curtis-Hall
Co-Producer Attached: Jeffrey D. Erb
Comparatives: Marathon Man; The Counterfeiters; Inglourious Bastards; Sarah’s Key
Top Media Pick-Ups:
Vondie Curtis-Hall Directing Thriller ‘Residue’ – VARIETY
Contact:
Jonathan R. Adler, CEO
Email: JonathanRAdler@greyeaglefilms.com
Phone: 301-252-0069
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The Sunset Gang
Television
The Beloved Television Series
Produced by Grey Eagle Films/TV
“…dramatically daring,” —Los Angeles Times
“Those… stories (based on the work by Warren Adler) are in fact, pure drama – moving, comical, and most of all, sharply observed.” —Wall Street Journal
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The musical version of The Sunset Gang received an Off-Broadway production with music scored by noted composer L. Russell Brown.
Comparatives: The Golden Girls; Getting On; Seinfeld; Everybody Loves Raymond
Top Media Pickup:
TV Review: Sunset Gang Ripens with Age — LA TIMES
Contact:
Jonathan R. Adler, CEO
Email: JonathanRAdler@greyeaglefilms.com
Phone: 301-252-0069
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Trans Siberian Express
Television
The Epic International Television Series
Produced by Grey Eagle Films/TV
A Cold War tale of love, loss, and nuclear intrigue as we take an epic journey on the legendary Trans Siberian Railway from Moscow to Vladivostok. When American cancer specialist, Alex Cousins, learns the diabolical plans of his patient, Soviet Politburo Chief Viktor Dimitrov, he is dispatched on a six-thousand-mile journey aboard the Trans Siberian Express where KGB men watch his every move.
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Comparatives: The Crown; The Americans; Dr. Zhivago; Genius; War & Peace
Top Media Pickups:
‘Trans-Siberian Express’ Movie in the Works Based on Warren Adler Novel — VARIETY
Contact:
Jonathan R. Adler, CEO
Email: JonathanRAdler@greyeaglefilms.com
Phone: 301-252-0069
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Target Churchill
Doug Simon & Will Canon (Screenwriters)
Television
The Epic International Multi-Year Television Series
Produced by Grey Eagle Films/TV
Based on the book written in collaboration with Pulitzer Prize Nominee James C. Humes, the world’s foremost living biographer of Winston Churchill.
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“A fast moving cloak and dagger story that will reward Churchill fans and fans of fiction like Frederick Forsythe’s seminal novel of intrigue ‘Day of the Jackal.’” – NYT
Inspired by true events. World War II has ended. Stalin is bent on gobbling up Eastern Europe. Churchill is defeated as Prime Minister. The KGB has trained an American born SS man as a mole to assassinate Churchill during his speech at Westminster College in Missouri where he will announce to the world Stalin’s plans for communist domination. His sole loyal bodyguard Walter Thompson becomes aware of the plot and acts to abort it. Spine tingling and heart stopping, Target Churchill offers a believable scenario of what might have occurred during a quintessential moment in world history.
Comparatives: The Crown; The Game; Foyle’s War; The State Within
Top Media Pickups:
Soviet Spy Thriller “Target Churchill” Movie in the Works – VARIETY
International Media Pickups:
LENTA.RU: В Голливуде придумали покушение советского разведчика на Черчилля
FILMWEB (Poland); Autor powieściowej “Wojny państwa Rose” szykuje zamach sowietów na Churchilla
Contact:
Jonathan R. Adler, CEO
Email: JonathanRAdler@greyeaglefilms.com
Phone: 301-252-0069
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Little Black Dress
Karen Leigh Hopkins, David W. Higgins
Feature Film
Based on the novel “Mourning Glory” by Warren Adler
Produced by Grey Eagle Films/TV & David W. Higgins
“Warren Adler delivers a dark, delectable look at lust, greed, betrayal and redemption. Never have the seven deadly sins been such fun.” -Author Judith Kelman
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Grace just lost her shitty job for being too honest. Since honesty didn’t work for her, she’s gonna try something new on for size: A LITTLE BLACK DRESS.
And she’s gonna accessorize with some little white lies…
This ain’t no fairy tale; but a cautionary one for our times.
Production start date: Fall 2020
Writer/Director Attached: Karen Leigh Hopkins
Creative Producer-Head of Production Attached: David W. Higgins
Comparatives: Crazy, Stupid, Love; Trainwreck; In a World…; Enough Said
Top Media Pickups:
Dark Comedy Novel Mourning Glory in the Works as Movie — VARIETY
Dark Comedy Novel Mourning Glory in the Works as Movie — WORLD NEWS
Dark Comedy Novel Mourning Glory in the Works as a Movie — BOSTON HERALD
Top International Media Pickups:
Το MOURNING GLORY έρχεται στην μεγάλη οθόνη
Contact:
Jonathan R. Adler, CEO
Email: JonathanRAdler@greyeaglefilms.com
Phone: 301-252-0069
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The Serpent’s Bite
Feature Film
Produced by Grey Eagle Films/TV & Anna Camp
In an attempt to reconnect with his two alienated adult children, George Temple replicates the memorable horse trek through the forbidding Yellowstone wilderness they had enjoyed twenty years earlier. As they are led by a drunken guide and a venal horse wrangler over potentially lethal terrain, their bonding experience quickly disintegrates.
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Co-Producer and Star Attached: Anna Camp
Comparatives: The Edge; Deliverance; The River Wild
Top Media Pickups:
Pitch Perfect Star Anna Camp Boards Drama The Serpent’s Bite – VARIETY
Anna Camp Thriller The Serpent’s Bite to be Written by Alex Alemanni – VARIETY
Contact:
Jonathan R. Adler, CEO
Email: JonathanRAdler@greyeaglefilms.com
Phone: 301-252-0069
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Torture Man
Feature Film
Produced by Grey Eagle Films/TV
The young daughter of prominent anti-war and anti-torture activist, Sarah Raab, is kidnapped and held for ransom by Jihadi terrorists. Ordered not to contact the police, she enlists the help of a mysterious and seemingly retired CIA operative. A man who stands against everything she deeply believes in. How far will she go against her own convictions when things get personal?
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Co-written by Michael Adler
Comparatives: Zero Dark Thirty; Traitor; Rendition; A Mighty Heart
Top Media Pickups:
Warren Adler’s Thriller Torture Man in the Works as a Movie — VARIETY
Top International Media Pickups:
Torture Man: il romanzo di Warren Adler arriva al cinema
Contact:
Jonathan R. Adler, CEO
Email: JonathanRAdler@greyeaglefilms.com
Phone: 301-252-0069
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Funny Boys
Feature Film
Produced by Grey Eagle Films/TV
A dark romantic dramedy set amidst the background of the all-you-can-eat and play resort life of the glamorous Catskills in 1937. A step back in time where a young comedian makes the questionable choice of falling hard for an infamous mobster’s “number one” gal. A decision that may doom these young innocent lovers well before their time.
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Comparatives: Dirty Dancing; Get Shorty; Analyze This; The Notebook; Brooklyn
Contact:
Jonathan R. Adler, CEO
Email: JonathanRAdler@greyeaglefiulms.com
Phone: 301-252-0069
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Fiona Fitzgerald Mystery Series
Television
Produced by Grey Eagle Films/TV
(based on Warren Adler’s Fiona Fitzgerald Mystery Series)
Filling a hole deep in her psyche left by the unsolved disappearance of her Senator father as a teen, Fiona Fitzgerald has been driven to be an elite detective in the heart of the nation’s capital. Her Washington insider/elite status has made fitting in to the blue-collar world of the DC PD challenging.
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Contact:
Jonathan R. Adler, CEO
Email: JonathanRAdler@greyeaglefilms.com
Phone: 301-252-0069
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The Children of the Roses
Alex McAulay, Will Canon, Doug Simon
Feature Film
Produced by Grey Eagle Films/TV
“This much should surely be said about The War of the Roses: it promises to take the gloves off, and it delivers.” –The New York Times Film Review
The hilarious and disturbing sequel to the original blockbuster hit and iconic tale about the perils of marriage, divorce and the destructive power of materialism, The War of the Roses.
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Writers Attached: Doug Simon & Will Canon; Alex McAulay
Creative Producer-Head of Production Attached: David W. Higgins
Comparatives: The War of the Roses; Young Adult; The Breakup; Fargo
Top Media Pickups:
The War of the Roses Sequel in the Works — FILM PULSE
War of the Roses Getting a Sequel That will Center on the Children — CINEMA BLEND
Warren Adler Releases The War of the Roses: The Children — BROADWAY WORLD
There’s a Sequel to The War of the Roses in the Works — AV CLUB
New War of the Roses Pic Flowering — DEADLINE
Contact:
Jonathan R. Adler, CEO
Email: JonathanRAdler@greyeaglefilms.com
Phone: 301-252-0069
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Team
Jonathan Robert Adler
CEO
Jonathan R. Adler is the CEO of Grey Eagle Films/TV, Grey Eagle Development and Adler Entertainment Trust, LLC. All entities are involved in exclusively developing Warren Adler’s 53 plus previous and new books plays and over 100 short stories for film, television, live stage, podcasts and other new media both domestically and for international audiences. Jonathan has been an entrepreneurial force in media, management and M&A for the past 35+ years. Since age 19, when he helped found and manage Washington Dossier magazine, Adler has been building, buying and selling businesses ranging in revenue from $5M to $100M and managing teams from start-ups to over 2,500 employees. He has also been a successful investor in more than 10 other companies and projects, including Sport and Health Clubs, Bizbash Media, EPI-Colorspace, and The Adler Group.
Look for the stage adaptation of THE WAR OF THE ROSES on Broadway and West End, plus the continuation of its world-wide premieres in Hungary, Mexico, Argentina, France, Germany, Brazil, Italy, as well as the new Musical Premiering in Belgium. Current projects in development include: THE CHILDREN OF THE ROSES, FIONA FITZGERALD’S Homicide Detective Series, TARGET CHURCHILL, LITTLE BLACK DRESS GLORY, TORTURE MAN, THE WOMANIZER-AMHERST, CULT, THE SERPENT’S BITE, FUNNY BOYS, THE SUNSET GANG, RESIDUE, FLANNAGAN’S DOLLS, TRANS-SIBERIAN EXPRESS and THE WAR OF THE ROSES. The Grey Eagle Films/TV, a subsidiary of Adler Entertainment Trust, is currently in the process of actively developing and producing upcoming productions based on Warren Adler’s vast library to be shared in all media.
