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Producers Eric Eisner (Hamlet 2), Gil Adler (Superman Returns), and Shane McCarthy have teamed up for the production of T.J. English's New York Times best seller, "Havana Nocturne".

The best seller is based around Havana in the 1950's when mobsters such as Meyer Lansky and Charles “Lucky” Luciano looked to Havana as the mob's ultimate money-making dream. It was mainly through Lansky, who wisely cultivated relationships with the Cuban government all the way up to President Batista, that the mob began to see that dream fulfilled. Together the mob and Batista's brutal governmental regime had built some of the world's most luxurious casinos with extravagant entertainment that attracted tourism and celebrities world wide. To the Cuban revolutionaries however, one in particular by the name of Fidel Castro, the mob's dream did not coincide with their own.

Matt Cirulnick, who is also doing an adaptation of Bernard Tavernier's French thriller "Bait", will be writing the script.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, producers have voiced the aim of this film to show the entirety of Cuba during this time of development from revolutionaries and nightclubs, to mobsters and jungles.

"We really want to show Havana and Cuba as a character at a time that it's booming," Eisner said. "This is about mobsters who don't only control a few business but try to control an entire country, and the tension that results when their plans go awry."