HERNANDO COUNTY — Ken Eurell is infamously known as one of the dirtiest cops in New York City history.It’s a title from which he does not run.Instead, the 60-year-old resident of Hernando County wants others to learn from his mistakes.He was part of the 2014 documentary The Seven Five, which details his path from honest to crooked cop and later published his memoir, Betrayal in Blue. Now, Eurell’s story might become a Hollywood movie directed by Ben Stiller. The film is named for the 75th precinct in Brooklyn where Eurell worked.“Ben Stiller is in talks to direct the crime movie The Seven Five for MGM,” Eurell wrote on Facebook. “It’s about to get real.”He’s known for a while, Eurell wrote, but kept the news quiet. Then Collider.com broke the story on Thursday.“I’ve actually been tracking Stiller’s involvement since June 2019,” he wrote, “as I’d heard he was working on a new draft of the Seven Five script with Tony McNamara,” who wrote The Favourite .Eurell could not be immediately reached for comment.In the late 1980s, while making $19,000 a year to patrol one of the most dangerous precincts in the New York Police Department, Eurell was tempted into the life of a crooked cop by his partner Michael Dowd, making an additional $8,000 a week from drug dealers.He moonlighted by providing security during drug runs and information about possible police raids. Later, the partners used police connections to sell kilos of cocaine.Their 1992 arrest made national news.Then, while out on bail, to pay for an escape to Nicaragua, Dowd agreed to take a job kidnapping a woman for a drug dealer who planned to kill her.That was too much for Eurell. He turned Dowd in and was sentenced to two months for his crimes. Dowd served 12 years.Sony was initially slated to produce the feature film and, in 2018, announced it would be directed by Craig Gillespie, who told the story of vengeful figure skater Tonya Harding in I, Tonya .“Current MGM boss Michael De Luca was Sony’s president of production at the time,” Eurell wrote on Facebook, “and clearly he hasn’t forgotten about this project.”
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