Kevin Arkadie to create Ray Davis biopic

Epoch Movies has signed veteran TV crime author/producer Kevin Arcadie to pen the biopic of Ray Davis, the South Bronx folk hero who made it a shootout with 30 cops, wounding six before his escape touched off a 17-day manhunt.Saturday may be the 25-year anniversary from the saga that started when government bodies raided the apartment of Davis's sister, on the face to question him concerning the killing of 4 suspected drug sellers. He steered clear of inside a hail of gunfire, wounding six officials and evading police in excess of two days before he was cornered and surrendered.Davis's defense lawyers contended the initial raid was staged to murder him due to he understood about corrupt police within the drug business. He was found innocent of attempted murder within the shootout, removed within the deaths from the drug sellers but found guilty inside a later murder situation and stabbed to dying imprisonment in 2008.Arcadie, whose numerous writing and creating credits include "NYPD Blue" and "The Shield," will adapt the storyline for Epoch, whose chairman and executive producer Anderson Vilien acquired the existence privileges captured.InchWe're feeling there's nobody else that knows the subtleties and how to go about this project a lot more than Kevin. He assisted usher urban culture in to the mainstream as author/creator of NY Undercover and the 20+ year career is proof of his capability to capture the interior-city experience," Vilien stated.Producers are focusing on a summer time 2012 shoot within the South Bronx. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com