The Reaper has landed at NBC. I’ve learned that the network has given a production order to a six-hour miniseries from the Weinstein Co. based on the recently released book The Reaper: Autobiography Of One Of The Deadliest Special Ops Snipers by Nicholas Irving, the U.S. Army 3rd Ranger Battalion’s deadliest sniper.
NBC Logo NewI hear NBC went aggressively after the project, announced by the Weinstein Co. a month ago, and bought it preemptively. A writer for the mini is expected to be named soon.
The Weinstein Company logoThe Weinstein Co. acquired the rights to Irving’s memoir less than a week after it was published by St. Martin’s Press with the indention to adapt it as a miniseries to begin production in the summer. The Reaper comes on the heels of the blockbuster success of the Bradley Cooper starrer American Sniper, also an adaptation of the memoir of one of American’s most decorated snipers.
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