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EXCLUSIVE: Skydance Sports is processing a characteristic adjustment of Scouts and Raiders: The Navy’s First Special Warfare Commandos, a 1993 activity of non-fiction by John B. Dwyer, which Mark Perez (Game Night) and Jason Filardi (Chapelwaite) are aboard to adapt.
Scouts and Raiders is billed arsenic telling nan existent root communicative of nan WWII commando portion of nan aforesaid name, a precursor to nan Navy SEALs, including its dense recruitment of collegiate and master shot players. The NFL is progressive pinch nan project, via its narration pinch Skydance Sports, pinch Bill McGoldrick and Gary Shapiro group to produce, aft bringing nan book into nan studio.
Perez is possibly champion known for his activity connected nan Warner Bros. action-comedy Game Night, starring Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams. Behind Epix’s Stephen King bid Chapelwaite, Filardi is besides known for his penning connected comedies 17 Again and Bringing Down nan House.
Perez is repped by CAA, head Kathleen Remington of Remington Creative, and Adam Kaller & Duncan Hedges astatine Hansen, Jacobson, Teller. Filardi is repped by David Saunders astatine Independent Artists Group and George Tobia astatine Burns & Levinson.
Skydance Sports precocious received 10 Sports Emmy nominations for documentaries including America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys, WWE: Unreal, Elway and Saquon. Upcoming, they person nan David Corenswet starrer Mr. Irrelevant, different NLF title, which Paramount releases Christmas Day. Other projects to travel see nan docuseries The Dynasty: UConn Huskies for Apple TV and Dan Fogelman’s Hulu play series The Land.
