Don Winslow "has thrown a surprise at his publishers at HarperCollins and made a multimillion-dollar worldwide deal for his trouble," Deadline reported, adding that the bestselling author of The Cartel and The Force "just got an April 2020 publication date for Broken, a book that contains five novellas and one short story. Four of those novellas and the short story will be shopped soon to studios, networks and streamers."
"Broken was inspired by Stephen King's Different Seasons, a collection of four short novels, three of which became the films Shawshank Redemption, Stand by Me and Apt Pupil," Winslow said. "Broken contains five novellas and a short story and we think four of the novellas and the short story have real potential for film and television adaptation."
The projects are "just part of a set of moves that Winslow and Shane Salerno's the Story Factory have quietly made to better control the destiny of his terrific fiction as it gets turned into film and TV adaptations," Deadline noted.