Bosch creator Michael Connelly to tackle new drama based on his crime reporting career

Edgar Award-winning author Michael Connelly is set to helm a new drama series based on his career as a crime reporter. Connely is known as the author of the novels that shows such as Bosche, Ballard, and The Lincoln Lawyer are based on.

As per Deadline, besides his crime novels, the popular author will bring back stories from his journalistic days that he spent in Florida. With Playwright Jim Leonard, who is also known for producing popular crime shows like Dexter and Ray Donovan, Connelly will create the untitled project, the Florida Task Force TV show.

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Michael Connelly is helming a drama based on his crime reporting career

Based on Michael Connelly’s novels, Bosch, Bosch: Legacy, and Ballard are among Prime Video’s superhit shows, while The Lincoln Lawyer is among the top legal dramas on the popular streaming platform, Netflix.

Now, the crime fiction novelist is developing a series that will be based on his own earlier life. In 1980, after graduating from the University of Florida, Connelly joined the Daytona Beach News-Journal as a crime reporter. After working there for a while, he joined the Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel.

Michael Connelly was a dedicated crime reporter who also won a Pulitzer Prize for covering the story of the survivors of the Delta Flight 191 plane crash in 1985. Besides this, he also covered the formidable cocaine wars taking place in the vibrant city of South Florida.

The untitled project is said to be inspired by his time in both publications. Therefore, it might bring back the stories related to crime in 1980s Florida. The upcoming drama series is being developed by Paramount Television Studios.

Theresa Snider and Rick Jackson will join Connelly and Leonard as producers of the upcoming series. Deadline reported that the project came into existence in Skydance Television and became a part of PTVS studio after the former was acquired by Paramount Global.

Other than taking inspiration from Connelly’s crime reporting career, not much about the premise, cast, or release date has been shared about the series yet.

More about Michael Connelly

While the new series will bring back facets of the popular author’s earlier life as a crime reporter, he has been a known name among television viewers who love watching detective and crime fiction shows.

From his short stories to full-length novels, many of Connelly’s works have been adapted for the screen, such as Avalon, Bosch, and Bosch: Legacy, among others. Movies such as The Lincoln Lawyer, starring Matthew McConaughey, are based on his popular novel of the same name.

Veteran director Clint Eastwood’s 2002 film, Blood Work, is also adapted from the 69-year-old writer’s novel of the same name.

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