EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures and Lorne Michaels' Broadway Video have purchased feature rights to The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior. The film is based on the biography by former Navy SEAL Rob O'Neill, who revealed in the book that he was the SEAL who killed…

EXCLUSIVE: Middleton Media Group has optioned rights to Breaking Cover, a biography by former CIA officer Michele Rigby Assad, with an eye on making a feature film about her and her husband Joseph. Michael Russell Gunn (The Newsroom, The Virginian), currently a supervising producer on Showtime’s Billions, is adapting…

EXCLUSIVE: It was one of the most poignant and heartbreaking stories to come out of the U.S. forces’ fight against Al-Qaeda. Air Force Combat Controller John Chapman, mortally wounded, was first thought to have died in the mountains of Afghanistan in the battle of Takur Ghar. This hero who took on two dozen Taliban…

EXCLUSIVE: Participant Media has emerged from a spec battle to acquire The Price Of Liberty, a script by Michael Russell Gunn. Tribeca’s Jane Rosenthal, Berry Welsh and Robert De Niro will produce with Cary Granat. The spec is drawn from a true story. An American diplomat in Kazakhstan after the fall of the Soviet…