Sam Raimi To Adapt Lehane

From CHUD.com:
William Shakespeare? Who dat? If you want to be somebody these days, you've got to adapt Dennis Lehane. Since Clint Eastwood popularized his stuff with Mystic River, the author's material has become fodder for Scorsese and given Ben Affleck a bridge back to respectability.
Now Sam Raimi is eying one of his books. Columbia picked up the forthcoming novel The Given Day for Raimi to develop as a directorial project.
For a summary of The Given Day, finish CHUD's article here.