Easy Does It

Best news of the day: According to Lee Goldberg, the cable-TV network HBO is planning to make a feature film version of Walter Mosley’s splendid 2004 novel, Little Scarlet, the eighth entry in his series about L.A. private eye Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins. Goldberg says that actors Jeffrey Wright and Mos Def have been signed for the project, “though, in an unusual twist, it’s undecided at this point” who’ll play Rawlins, and who will portray his homicidal crony, Raymond “Mouse” Alexander. HBO has reportedly signed Mosley himself to write the script.