THE BLACK STILETTO Picked Up By Lonetree Entertainment

Online, February 8, 2012 (Newswire.com) - The film rights to Raymond Benson's retro-superhero book series "The Black Stiletto" have been picked up by Lonetree Entertainment. Benson was represented by veteran literary and film manager, Peter Miller, of Global Lion Intellectual Property Management, Inc.

"Stiletto was a real find and we're all very excited about the potential of this unique genre-bending project," said Lonetree producing partner Tony Eldridge. Lonetree Entertainment is currently partnered with Escape Artists and Sony Pictures on "The Equalizer" feature film starring Denzel Washington.

The company has a number of other projects in development, including the epic WWII action drama, "The War Magician" with Marc Forster attached to direct, and "The Kitchen House", based on Kathleen Grissom's New York Times bestseller.

Lonetree is fast tracking Stiletto and is currently in discussions with several A-list screenwriters.

Library Journal called The Black Stiletto a "mashup of the work of Gloria Steinem, Ian Fleming, and Mario Puzo, all under the editorship of Stan Lee." Booklist gave the novel a starred review, calling it "prime escapism."

RAYMOND BENSON is the New York Times' best selling author of over twenty-five published books. His next thriller is the second book in the Black Stiletto series, THE BLACK STILETTO: BLACK & WHITE, followed by an original tie-in novel set in the Hitman videogame universe. He was the fourth author, and first American, to pen official James Bond fiction, 1996-2002. Anthologies of his 007 work were published in 2008 and 2010: THE UNION TRILOGY and CHOICE OF WEAPONS. Recent works include HOMEFRONT: THE VOICE OF FREEDOM (co-written with John Milius), the Shamus Award-nominated DARK SIDE OF THE MORGUE, SWEETIE'S DIAMONDS, TORMENT, ARTIFACT OF EVIL, and tie-ins and novelizations for the Metal Gear Solid videogame series, and New York Times' Best Sellers for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (as "David Michaels"). www.raymondbenson.com

For more information contact Peter Miller at [email protected]

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