Oscar-winning producer Bruce Cohen (American Beauty, Silver Linings Playbook) has optioned the feature film rights to Steven J. Ross’ Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for History this year. The Hollywood Reporter ran an exclusive excerpt from the book in September.

Hitler in Los Angeles tells the incredible but true story of how Leon Lewis, a Jewish lawyer, led a spy ring that included ex-Klansmen and the son of a German general. While law enforcement was busy chasing ineffectual communists, Lewis’ ring stopped several outlandish plots to kidnap or kill prominent Hollywood figures like Al Jolson, Charlie Chaplin and Samuel Goldwyn to promote the Nazi cause.

Chris Bremner is attached to write the screenplay. He is currently writing the third Bad Boys movie (tentatively titled Bad Boys for Life) as well as The Shadows, the true story of America’s first detectives (and based off of a Boston Globe article) for Pearl Street and Paramount.