EXCLUSIVE: Emmy winner David E. Kelley, who created Netflix‘s The Lincoln Lawyer based on Michael Connelly’s novels, is helping bring another popular book character by a bestselling author to the streamer. The prolific writer-producer has teamed with Harlan Coben to adapt his Myron Bolitar novels as a TV series, sources tell Deadline.
In addition to writing the script, Kelley and Coben are executive producing the potential series with David E. Kelley Prods president Matthew Tinker. Netflix declined comment.
The project has been a priority for Netflix when it re-upped its overall deal with Coben in 2022. The original pact gave the streamer access to 14 Coben books to develop into English-language and foreign-language series as well as films. The 2022 pact added 12 more titles: Coben’s signature 11-book Myron Bolitar series as well as the stand-alone 2021 novella Win, for an adaptation as an ongoing, U.S.-based series.
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