The Second Life of Nick Mason Movie Updates

Tue., Apr. 12, 2016

from Deadline

Lionsgate Sets ‘Equalizer’ Scribe Richard Wenk To Adapt Steve Hamilton No...

Lionsgate has set Richard Wenk to adapt The Second Life Of Nick Mason, the first title in a new novel series by Steve Hamilton.

• added Richard Wenk as screenwriter to credits
• changed the production status to Development

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Sat., Sep. 12, 2015

from Deadline

Lionsgate Makes Preemptive Deal For Steve Hamilton Novel 'The Second Life Of Nick Mas...

Lionsgate has preemptively acquired The Second Life Of Nick Mason, a potential franchise based on the first in a series of books by Steve Hamilton

• added Shane Salerno as producer to credits
• added Nina Jacobson as producer to credits
• added a synopsis

• Career criminal Nick Mason is released from prison after serving only five of a 25 year sentence. He promptly moves into a tony condo on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, living with a beautiful roommate and driving a new car. The circumstance... show all s behind Mason's release soon become clear. He made a deal with an infamous Chicago crime lord, Darius Cole, who lived on the same cell block as Mason and used his clout to free Mason, only if the ex-con will pick up the crime lord's cell phone call and execute every thing asked of him, from robbery to murder to fixing any problem, no questions asked. Mason made this Faustian bargain so he could re-connect with his estranged daughter. Hounded by the cop who put him away in the first place, Mason must figure out how to get out from under.

• added Color Force as a production company
• added Lionsgate as a distributor
• added crime as genre
• changed the production status to Development
• changed the title from " The Second Life of Nick Mason " to "The Second Life of Nick Mason "
• created the movie profile