Skydance is growing a brand new Mike Hammer film primarily based on the enduring personal investigator created by Mickey Spillane.
Brutal and violent, Mike Hammer is a no-holds-barred personal investigator created by Mickey Spillane and featured in novels, films, TV reveals, comics, and extra. Mike Hammer is ready to return to the large display as Skydance has acquired the rights to the franchise and is planning to develop a film primarily based on the enduring character.
No writers, administrators, or actors hooked up to the brand new Mike Hammer film presently, which is hardly a shock given the continued WGA and SAG strikes. The rights to the character have been in dispute for fairly a while. Mickey Spillane died in 2006, only one month after the dying of his supervisor. The supervisor’s property tried to say possession of Mike Hammer, however following years in courtroom, these rights reverted to Spillane’s property.
Beginning with the novel I, the Jury, Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer novels have bought over 250 million copies worldwide. When Spillane died, his shut buddy and fellow writer Max Allan Collins was entrusted to finish the assorted unfinished Mike Hammer tales, the latest being Kill Me If You Can in 2022. There have been a number of Mike Hammer films primarily based on Spillane’s novels over time, together with diversifications of I, the Jury, Kiss Me Lethal, My Gun is Fast, and The Woman Hunters.
Quite a few actors have performed the detective over time, together with Mickey Spillane himself in The Woman Hunters, which can be one of many only a few occasions an writer has performed their very own character. The actor who performed Mike Hammer most incessantly was Stacy Keach, who starred in a number of TV films (Homicide Me, Homicide You; Extra Than Homicide; The Return of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer; Mike Hammer: Homicide Takes All). Keach additionally performed the function in a number of TV collection, together with Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer (which was later retooled to develop into The New Mike Hammer) and Mike Hammer, Personal Eye.
The New Mike Hammer film shall be produced by Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Don Granger, alongside Guymon Casady, Benjamin Forkner, and Ken F. Levin. Max Allan Collins will government produce, with Spillane’s spouse Jane additionally serving as co-producer.