Los Angeles film house seek rights to Charles Miranda’s book Deception, about NSW Crime Commission boss Mark Standen’s downfall
A LOS Angeles film house wants the rights to Deception, the true crime novel about the downfall of NSW Crime Commission’s top cop Mark Standen.
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POLICE believed their investigation into the Dutch based Haklander drug cartel ran like a movie and now it may be turned into one.
A Los Angeles based film house has made an offer for the rights to Deception, the international true crime novel by News Corp Australia journalist Charles Miranda that told the early story about how the Dutch cartel managed to seduce NSW Crime Commission assistant director Mark Standen into working for them.
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While a production company has made a written approach for the book, published in 2012 in Australia and Britain, with the plot set in Netherlands, the UK, the US, Australia and Asia, interest has also been shown from Hollywood actress Natalie Portman.
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Such was her interest in transnational crime she asked for a copy of Deception during a visit to London last year.
One particular scene may have captured her interest, that involving the real life Russell Crowe who feared he was going to be executed when he went to an arranged meeting in 2008 with Standen, then a respected top cop, to talk about law enforcement for an unrelated script he was researching.
As he walked with Standen to the meeting they noted what felt was about to be a hit by a group of men dressed as workmen in a tunnel in Walsh Bay.
It is believed the men were undercover police pursuing Standen.
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