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Lights, camera, TV series!
Father-daughter lawyer team Murray and Stacey Richman — already famous in city courthouse circles and among criminally challenged rappers and mobsters — are on their way to yet greater fame.
CBS has purchased the script rights to a prime-time legal drama series, to be produced by Oscar-winner Robert De Niro and based on the lives of the Bronx-based legal duo, according to industry sources.
Tribeca Productions, helmed by De Niro and Jane Rosenthal, are teaming with Emmy-winning “Game Change” writer Danny Strong and “The Fighter” director David O. Russell.
Both Richmans declined to comment, as did CBS officials, who cited their policy of not commenting on projects in development.
But sources told The Post that the project’s all-star team hopes to shoot a pilot in the next few months and give it to the networks by next May, when CBS would decide if it is to become part of their Fall 2013 lineup.
There’s plenty of fodder for drama in the Richman’s whirlwind lives around crime.
Murray earned the nickname “Don’t Worry Murray” early in his 40-year practice. In that time he has repped members of all five New York crime families, along with a roster of rascally rappers.
The jovial legal legend was also a fixture at Sean “Puffy” Combs’ high-profile nightclub-shooting trial in 2000, repping co-defendant rapper Shyne.
“I’ll be brief,” the 5-foot-6 lawyer enjoys telling jurors. “I’m already short.”
Stacey Richman has worked with her dad in his 11-lawyer firm since she was in high school.
Her client list rivals her father’s in notoriety — although she likes to say that she’ll rep a ditch digger as diligently as a bold-faced name.
She has defended Jay-Z, Lil Wayne and Ja Rule in weapons cases, R&B singer D’Angelo in a 2011 hooker-solicitation case, and Theodora Richards — daughter of Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards — in her 2011 graffiti-making and marijuana-possession case.
Earlier this year she argued that Scout Willis, the 21-year-old daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, could not have been drinking an 8-ounce can of Pakistani beer in public, because Pakistan’s only brewery doesn’t sell that size can.
So far, the show, whose production deal was first reported by deadline.com, has no name.
But the Richmans are clearly the inspiration.
“Inspired by the father/daughter defense attorneys Murray and Stacey Richman, the project will center on a fictionalized version of the Richmans’ Bronx firm,” the log line reads.
“Where clients,” it continues, “are as notorious on the street as they are on Page Six.”
The project would be a co-production with CBS TV Studios.