Dogs, Dames And Murder

Author Dennis Lehane will adapt his own short story "Animal Rescue" into a feature film reports Variety.

The story, which is part the anthology book Boston Noir.the story synopsis from Publisher's Weekly says it's "a killing resulting from a lost and contested pit bull." The site Reviewingtheevidence.com simply adds there's "a hard man, a puppy, a dame, a scam." in the story

Peter Chernin is producing.the pic

Other Lehane works that have been adapted in the few years include Gone Baby Gone Mystic River and next week's Shutter Island