Flanagan’s Pursuit

Quirky Mystery

TV Series based on the novel “Flanagan’s Dolls”

Created by Andrew Rattenbury and Michael Adler

Irreverent Jewish African American Josh Applebaum and his matchless ‘partner in crime detection’, his wife Emily find their comfortable life in London threatened when Josh uncovers a financial conspiracy involving a powerful crime boss. They escape the city to hide out in Emily’s hometown of Shearwater Bay and run Emily’s Grandfather’s neglected antique shop: ‘Flanagan’s Pursuit’. Unfotunately, their obsessive curiosity for solving mysteries within the town could backfire and imperil their need to keep a low-profile.

The Ivory Tower

Television

Dramedy  based on Warren Adler’s novel The Womanizer.

TV Pilot created by Michael Adler

Allen Harris is a pillar of the community. A reputable law professor, esteemed Dean of the department. and respected family man adored by his wife, Alice Harris and their adopted daughter. But behind the shiny façade of high morals and ethics lies a much darker truth. The real Allen Harris is a far cry from his prominent, public personae. He is a serial womanizer and charming liar living in fear that his secret life could destroy his carefully orchestrated pristine reputation. Allen and his ilk at Amherst are a reflection of a deeper hypocrisy that runs throughout every corner of the University as well as the entire town.

Residue

Vondie Curtis-Hall

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.

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

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.

Target Churchill

Doug Simon & Will Canon (Screenwriters)

Historical Fiction

Feature Film screenplay by Warren Adler and Doug Simon & Will Canon TV Series

Pilot created by Andrew Rattenbury and Michael Adler Inspired by true events.

The series follows the life of Walter Thompson, Churchill’s long time bodyguard, from his early days plying his trade as a crack member of the special branch to his time after WW2 when a reenlisted Thompson struggles to abort a highly skilled ex-Nazi agent sent by the KGB to assassinate Churchill during his “Iron Curtain” speech at Westminster College in Missouri. Spine tingling and heart stopping, Target Churchill offers a believable scenario of what might have occurred during a quintessential moment in world history.

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

The Serpent’s Bite

Anna Camp

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.

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?

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.

Capitol Crimes

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.

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.