Screenwriter and novelist Alex McAulay has been chosen to write a second screenplay for Grey Eagle Productions‘ upcoming production of CULT, based on the novel penned by THE WAR OF THE ROSES author

Warren Adler. Alex McAulay is also writing the screenplay for THE WAR OF THE ROSES: THE CHILDREN, the long-awaited sequel to the original film, to be co-produced with David Permut of Permut Presentations. McAulay is well-known for his work on HBO EASTBOUND & DOWN and is currently writing a pilot in collaboration with writer and producer

Jody Hill (OBSERVE AND REPORT, EASTBOUND & DOWN, and THE FOOT FIST AWAY), for a new HBO series to be produced by Rough House Pictures.

According to Grey Eagle CEO Jonathan Robert Adler, CULT recounts the efforts of a husband to rescue his wife from a cult, and the extraordinary difficulties encountered when a brainwashed person is programmed by a ruthless demagogic organization bent on enslaving people to do their bidding.

CULT is particularly relevant today because it strikes a chord with a global audience feeling the direct and indirect effects of cultism on society in the form of extremism, terrorism, and other modes of violence both domestically and internationally.

With Grey Eagle COO, Steven Greenwald, former President of DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group and Embassy pictures, Grey Eagle Films has already launched a number of development deals.

CULT is just one of a number of Warren Adler novels in various stages of development by Grey Eagle Films. Other Grey Eagle projects include TARGET CHURCHILL, co-developed by Solution Entertainment Group, MOURNING GLORY, to be adapted by award-winning writer and director Karen Leigh Hopkins and CAPITOL CRIMES, a TV series based on Warren Adler’s Fiona Fitzgerald mystery series, co-developed by Sennet Entertainment, and Eric Overmyer as showrunner

According to CEO Jonathan Robert Adler, who is the author’s son and former CEO in various other enterprises, “My father’s literary output over the past 50 years has always attracted filmmakers. He has sold or optioned more than a dozen novels for film adaptation.”