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Screenwriters David Simon (The Wire) and former collaborator Tom Fontana (Oz) are reteaming for an HBO miniseries adaptation of the James L. Swanson book Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer. Fontana had previously worked with Simon in helping him to adapt his book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets into the 1993 police drama for NBC. The Manhunt miniseries, set in 1865, will focus on the 12-day search for Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, and the subsequent media frenzy. (Variety)