Amazon MGM Studios Lands Benjamin Percy’s ‘American Criminal,’ Gavin O’Connor Eyed to Direct (EXCLUSIVE)
Brent Lang Executive Editor Amazon MGM Studios have landed rights to Benjamin Percy’s novella “American Criminal,” with Gavin O’Connor negotiating to direct. The film, which Hidden Pictures and NeoText will produce, follows a professional thief who, after being apprehended by an FBI agent, is coaxed into infiltrating a violent Midwestern gang with the goal of dismantling them from the inside.