Following last year's blistering Troubles drama '71, it looks as if Yann Demange has found his next project. He's in final negotiations with Sony to direct The Seven Five, the story of corrupt NYPD cop Michael Dowd.
The title refers to New York's 75th Precinct, from where Officer Dowd ran a scam in the early '90s robbing drug dealers and selling their merchandise back onto the streets. The head of a gang of similarly compromised lawmen, he wasn't exactly subtle about his activities, driving to work in a red Corvette. He was eventually busted by his own partner and sentenced to 14 years in jail in 1992.
Dowd was the subject of a documentary directed by Tiller Russell - also called The Seven Five - last year, in which he admits he saw himself as "a cop and a gangster". Sony picked up the remake rights, and the project that Demange is circling is the dramatised result.
Megan Ellison and John Lesher are producing, along with Eli Holzman, who was behind the documentary version. No screenwriter, start date or potential cast has been revealed so far.