Possible Film Adaptation
Several announcements have been made of an Executioner film at first produced by Joseph E. Levine who contracted Richard Maibaum in 1972 to write a screenplay. He based it on the fifth and sixth volumes, Continental Contract and Assault on Soho. Later announcements were made of Executioner projects to be directed by Burt Reynolds; to star Sylvester Stallone (with Cynthia Rothrock slated to appear opposite), but the ideas never left development hell.
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