Tomorrow Studios (The Better Sister, One Piece) has acquired the novel Don't Let the Devil Ride by Ace Atkins, which will be adapted for TV by award-winning showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker (Marvel's Luke Cage).
The story: "Addison McKellar thought she knew the man she married--charming, successful Dean McKellar--until he vanished. Fearing the worst, she hires private investigator Porter Hayes, an old friend of her father and a legend in Memphis. As Hayes starts pulling at loose threads Addison's entire life unravels. Her husband's prosperous construction firm? It doesn’t exist. Instead, her easy, affluent lifestyle is funded by blood money from Dean's shadowy international mercenary firm--and she doesn't even know his real name."
"Ace Atkins is a singular voice, and we flew through this novel for the wild ride it is; nabbing an utterly dynamic and meticulous creator like Cheo to adapt it for series is the perfect pairing. We can't wait to introduce audiences to Porter Hayes in a story that takes us from the streets of Memphis all around the world," said the studio's CEO/partner Marty Adelstein, president/partner Becky Clements, and executive v-p Alissa Bachner, who are executive producing Don't Let the Devil Ride, along with Atkins and Coker.