Better Call Saul executive producer Gordon Smith is adapting The Destroyer book series, which was first published in 1971, for Sony Pictures Television with Prime Universe Films' Adrian Askarieh, producer of Hitman: Agent 47, set to exec produce, Deadline reported.
Originated by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir, the book series, which currently numbers over 150 titles, has sold more than 50 million copies worldwide and been translated into 40 languages. The TV project will use the library of books to create "an international action/adventure universe filled with humor," Deadline noted. A film adaptation, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, was released in 1985.