11/06/2007

Jerry Cotton – an FBI agent created in the 1950s by the publishing house Bastei Verlag through a series of detective novels – will soon be driving his Jaguar in cinema theatres, with Bastei Verlag having agreed to sell rights to the novel to Rat Pack Filmproduktion, a subsidiary of Constantin Film.

The director of the Lübbe publishing group is said to be delighted that this German "icon of the detective novel" is taking on a new dimension, as Cotton is a truly cult personality whose adventures have been translated into 14 languages, read in 50 countries and sold 850 million copies. The novels were so successful that the FBI even had to point out that the agent was fictional and had never actually worked at the Bureau.

Cotton will be played on the big screen by Christian Tramitz ((T)Raumschiff Surprise, Seven Dwarfs). The film is being produced by Christian Becker (Hui Buh: The Goofy Ghost [+see also:
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Constantin Filmverleih will release the film in Germany.

(Translated from French)