Millennium Acquires US Rights to Elmore Leonard-Scripted Rampart

Millennium Entertainment announced in a press release yesterday that the company had acquired the US rights to Rampart. The film, co-written by crime novelist Elmore Leonard and its director Oren Moverman, stars Woody Harrelson as Dave Brown, a cop long ago unleashed from the rules of the Los Angeles Police Department, and is based in part on a real LAPD scandal from the 1990s.

Assigned to the Rampart Precinct, Brown is dedicated to doing "the people’s dirty work" and asserting his own code of justice, often blurring the lines between right and wrong to maintain his action-hero state of mind. When he gets caught on tape beating a suspect, he finds himself in a personal and emotional downward spiral as the consequences of his past sins and his refusal to change his ways in light of a department-wide corruption scandal seal his fate.

The film's large supporting cast includes Ben Foster, Robin Wright, Sigourney Weaver, Steve Buscemi, Anne Heche, Cynthia Nixon, Ice Cube, Brie Larson, and Ned Beatty. Millennium expects to release Rampart this year.