Christopher Tuffin’s Strong Island has secured worldwide feature film and television rights to the Inspector Brant crime-novel series from the estate of the late Irish author Ken Bruen , whose hard-bitten London detective was first brought to the screen by Jason Statham in the 2011 film “Blitz.”

Under the pact, Strong Island will develop a new cycle of Brant films, launching with adaptations of Bruen’s “Calibre” and “Vixen.” British writer-director Tom Edmunds (“Dead in a Week”) is set to pen and helm both projects. Edmunds most recently wrapped the period action-thriller “The Butler” for Strong Island, starring Jean Reno and Tom Hollander, with Molly McCann also aboard. That film, set in 1920s London and produced by Tuffin, is currently in post-production.

Tuffin will produce the In

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