# ‘Yellowstone’s Cole Hauser Developing FBI Action Thriller ‘Pale Horse’ Alongside Constantin Film With Eye To Star

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/yellowstones-cole-hauser-developing-fbi-action-thriller-pale-horse-alongside-constantin-film-with-eye-to-star/
- Published: 2026-11-09T17:15:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-09T20:55:31+00:00
- Original publisher: Deadline
- Original article: https://deadline.com/2026/11/cole-hauser-sets-pale-horse-thriller-constantin-film-1237216792/
- Topics: Americas, Celebrity, Entertainment, Film, World

## Key points

- Cole Hauser is developing a thriller based on Scott Payne’s FBI career.
- The story includes operations against The Base and the Outlaws Motorcycle Club.
- Hauser may star, with Randall Batinkoff adapting the memoir.

## Summary

Cole Hauser’s American Outlaw Entertainment is developing the action thriller *Pale Horse* with Constantin Film, based on retired FBI agent Scott Payne’s undercover career. Hauser may star and will produce; the film draws on operations that took him into dangerous criminal groups, including a neo-Nazi organisation.

Randall Batinkoff is adapting the screenplay from Payne and Michelle Shephard’s bestselling memoir *Code Name: Pale Horse*. The story includes Payne’s infiltration of The Base in Georgia and a two-year assignment inside the Outlaws Motorcycle Club in Massachusetts. Robert Kulzer will produce for Constantin Film, while Payne and Oliver Berben are executive producers.

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