Fox producer Hutch Parker has optioned James Lee Burke's New Orleans mystery novels featuring Dave Robicheaux and is packaging a series for cable TV. Deadline.com reported that there have been two previous attempts at feature films--Heaven's Prisoners (1996) and In The Electric Mist With Confederate Dead (2009)--but "after how well FX and Graham Yost did with Elmore Leonard's U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens character in the series Justified, cable sounds like just the place for Robicheaux." Parker has also recently teamed with Shane Salerno to turn Don Winslow's early novel California Fire and Life into a film.
