Posted: Tue., Apr. 17, 2007, 8:00pm<\/p>\n
By MICHAEL FLEMING<\/p>\n
Dick Wolf and NBC Universal will use the investigation of New York City cops Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito as the basis for a TV series.
\nThree feature films are also in development about the rogue cops who were convicted of moonlighting as murderers for an organized crime family.<\/p>\n
Wolf and the studio acquired screen rights to “The Brotherhoods: The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia,” by Guy Lawson and William Oldham. Oldham once worked as a cop alongside Caracappa, and years later was appalled that he and his partner, Eppolito (whose father and grandfather were Gambino crime family soldiers), were never properly investigated after a turncoat Lucchese underboss fingered them as paid mob employees.<\/p>\n
Getting nowhere with NYPD bosses who seemed to want the situation to just go away, Oldham became a special investigator for the U.S. Attorney’s Brooklyn office and assembled a team of investigators, who found enough evidence to arrest the cops after they’d retired to a gated community in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
Tom Thayer will be a producer on the project. He’s an exec producer on Wolf’s upcoming mini, “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.” It is unclear whether the book will be used to create a fourth “Law & Order” or stand on its own as a drama about the investigations unit that could use the dirty cop case as its pilot.<\/p>\n
“We are very excited about this project,” Wolf said in a statement. “It contains a unique franchise that could be taken in a multitude of directions.”<\/p>\n
Three movies are in the works based on Caracappa and Eppolito. Spring Creek’s Paula Weinstein is developing a film based on Tommy Dades, a retired detective who was a key cog in the investigation; “Training Day” scribe David Ayer is rewriting Dan Gordon’s original script for “Mafia Cop,” which Ayer will direct for Mandalay and Universal; and “Goodfellas” scribe Nick Pileggi is writing a fictionalized drama based on the case for Irwin Winkler and Columbia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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