'Gun' loaded for Petersen at Warners
Project based on prison-escaping bank robber Tucker
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Petersen, who will produce the project with Radiant exec Diana Rathbun, is considering directing the project, though it hasn't been slotted into his schedule. Helmer is in the midst of co-production on Warner's Homeric epic, "Troy."
Grann's article, which appeared in the Jan. 27 New Yorker, is a profile of Forrest Tucker, a Clyde Barrow-like figure whose arrest after a high-speed car chase at the age of 78 ended a six-decade long career of robbing banks and escaping from prison.
Tucker once escaped from San Quentin in a kayak built from parts smuggled into the prison; he later surfaced in Texas and Oklahoma as part of crew of robbers dubbed the Over-the-Hill Gang by local newspapers.
Sam Dickerman at Radiant will exec produce the pic, which will be developed at Warner by Polly Cohen and David Baubaire.
Article was the New Yorker debut for Grann, the son of former Putnam publisher Phyllis Grann. He and Petersen were repped by CAA.
