Sylvester Stallone Producing TV Series Adaptation of J.D. Barker's Serial Killer Thriller Book Series 4MK

Sylvester Stallone‘s Balboa Productions is teaming with Channing Powell (Tales of the Walking Dead) to develop a series adaptation of the 4MKbooks by author J.D. Barker. Set in Chicago, Barker’s novels follow Detective Sam Porter as he hunts the elusive Four Monkey Killer, a murderer who has terrorized the city for years with a chilling and highly personal code of judgment.

Guided by the maxim “hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil,” the killer removes the ears, eyes and tongues of his victims, turning every crime scene into a ritualized message.

But the true horror lies in the unspoken fourth commandment, “do no evil,” which reveals the killer’s deeper agenda: exposing hidden corruption by punishing the guilty through the people they love most.

Powell will showrun, write, and executive produce alongside Stallone and D. Matt Geller. Christian Bersani will oversee the project for Balboa Productions, after bringing the material to Powell.

In a statement on the 4MK series, Stallone said, “J.D. Barker has created a world with enormous scale, real danger, a ruthless narrative engine, and the kind of mythology that is tailor-made for premium television.

Channing Powell is not only a powerhouse writer and producer, but a true creator with a rare command of dark, character-driven storytelling, and she is exactly the right force to bring 4MK to the screen.

This is the kind of property that audiences don’t just watch, but get pulled into, and it has all the makings of a series that can hit hard, travel globally, and leave a real mark.”

The adaptation will draw from Barker’s original 4MK trilogy The Fourth Monkey, The Fifth to Die and The Sixth Wicked Child, as well as a recently announced prequel trilogy, whose first installment, The First Scarlet Door, is slated for worldwide release September 22.

via: Deadline