According to The Hollywood Reporter, Adrian Lyne is attached to direct an adaptation of Chuck Hogan's PRINCE OF THIEVES, which will be written by Sheldon Turner. Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group optioned the book and is producing for Warner Bros. Pictures.

PRINCE OF THIEVES is the tale of four men -- thieves, rivals and friends -- being hunted through the streets of Boston by a tenacious FBI agent and a woman who might destroy them all.

The book won the 2005 Hammett Prize for excellence in crime writing. Lyne brought the book to King, who then took it to the studio.