Ex-Cop Jeffrey Walker’s Story Optioned By The Nacelle Company, Stone Canyon Entertainment & Devon Shepard
Denise Petski, Nellie Andreeva EXCLUSIVE: The story of former Philadelphia Police Officer Jeffrey Walker is headed to the screen. The Nacelle Company, Stone Canyon Entertainment and producer Devon Shepard (Being Mary Jane) have optioned Walker’s life rights for possible TV or film development, with Stephen Belber (The Laramie Project) attached to pen the script.Per producers, over the course of a 20-year career as a narcotics officer with the Philadelphia PD, Jeffrey Walker, an African American, became co-opted by a system that harasses, unfairly arrests, and often kills those in the very community from which he came.