Eric Eisner (“Hamlet 2”), Gil Adler (“Superman Returns”), and Shane McCarthy (untitled Robert Cooley mob drama at Paramount) are all teaming up to produce, “Havana Nocturne,” a story of gangsters in 1950’s Cuba based on T.J. English’s New York Times bestseller, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Eisner’s L+E banner will produce and finance development, while Adler will produce via his Gilbert Adler Prods.

The story follows a group of American gangsters in Batista’s Cuba, notably Meyer Lansky, who runs the country’s casinos, nightclubs and other so-called lascivious businesses, and the rivalries that emerge as they lead the high life.  But the good times can’t last forever and Castro’s rebels and the Cuban Revolution put a damper on their plans.

The book was published by William Morrow  last year.

Matt Cirulnick is set to write the script.

“We really want to show Havana and Cuba as a character at a time that it’s booming,” Eisner said. “This is about mobsters who don’t only control a few business but try to control an entire country, and the tension that results when their plans go awry.”

Eisner went on to say that they will use politics as a backdrop but be less politically explicit than something like the Sydney Pollack-Robert Redford collaboration “Havana.”