Warner Bros. has made a first-look producing deal with scribe William Monahan ("Kingdom of Heaven", "The Departed") and his company Henceforth reports Variety.
Monahan has acquired rights to "The Gamblers," a John Pearson true-crime book about the mysterious circumstances surrounding the disappearance of Lord Lucan, an English nobleman and member of a fashionable group of 1960s gamblers. Lucan vanished after his children's nanny was found murdered.
It's unclear whether Monahan will write the script. Monahan recently adapted the David Ignatius spy novel "Penetration" for Ridley Scott, the Louis Begley novel "Wartime Lies", and "The Venetian," in which Matt Damon will play the explorer Marco Polo.
