All Directly into produce 'Dead Before Dying'

BERLIN -- Germany's All In Production is searching to show the whole shebang of South African crime novelist Deon Meyer right into a TV movie trilogy. The Munich-based shingle has drawn on German-South African filmmaker Oliver Schmitz, who helmed this years Cannes screener "Existence Most Importantly," to direct the very first installment, "Dead Before Dying," from an British-language script by British authors Matt Harvey and Dominic Morgan. The 1996 book introduced Cape Town police captain Pad Joubert, a depressed and overweight chain-smoker still grieving losing his wife, who had been wiped out within the type of duty. A wave of homicides including one hundred-year-old German hand gun, combined having a tough new commanding officer who imposes a strict diet and mental health regimen on his detectives, soon provides the investigator a brand new lease on existence, however. The smoothness of Joubert also seems in Meyer's books "Dead at Daybreak" and "Trackers." All Was in talks with TV partners and worldwide co-producers for that project, that will incorporate a high-profile worldwide cast. Meyer's works happen to be bringing in lots of interest from moviemakers. London-based South African filmmaking team Malcolm Kohll and Robert Fig optioned the author's "13 Hrs," in regards to a detective's race to obtain the killer of the American student in Cape Town, while France's TF1 Worldwide has acquired privileges to "Bloodstream Safari," in regards to a freelance bodyguard facing callous wildlife poachers. Contact Erectile dysfunction Meza at staff@variety.com