John Wells’ Warner Bros TV-based production company has sold Easy Rawlins to NBC.  NBC’s Easy Rawlins is based on Walter Mosley’s best-selling novels about black P.I. Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, who finds himself solving crimes and dealing with the changing world around him in 1960s Los Angeles. (The books are set from the 1940s to 1960s.) Easy is a reluctant, self-taught P.I. with a conscience and a soul — and he easily slips between white Los Angeles and the black underground. Mosley will write the series adaptation with Southland co-executive producer Cheo Coker.

Walter Mosley has teamed up with Rachel Getting Married director Jonathan Demme to co-write a pilot for HBO.  The show will be based on the Mosley’s detective novel series The Long Fall. Demme will direct the pilot episode which introduces an ex-boxer who turns P.I..  Mosley will be executive producer along with Demme and Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman.