Tom Shepherd

Previously played by Dean Martin and Anthony Franciosa but absent from the screen for almost forty years, Donald Hamilton’s spy was featured in 27 novels, four movies and a short-lived 1975 television show.

Stephen Gaghan (Syriana) will direct from his own screenplay, based on an earlier draft by Tom Shepherd. The script will draw heavily from the 1920s series of children’s books by Hugh Lofting.

One of the world’s most famous crime novelists may, once again, be headed to the big screen. Columbia is in development with an action-adventure take on Agatha Christie from writer Tom Shepherd.

Pitched as Sherlock Holmes meets The Thomas Crown Affair, finds a young, adventurous Agatha Christie joining Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on a mission to track down the whereabouts of a missing oil tycoon.

Pitched as Sherlock Holmes meets The Thomas Crown Affair, finds a young, adventurous Agatha Christie joining Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on a mission to track down the whereabouts of a missing oil tycoon.

Black List scribe to pen rewrite.

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Logline: Follows the story and rise of Al Capone to the head of the Chicago criminal underworld, and the events in 1924 leading up to his government takeover of Cicero, Illinois.