One year later, a contract was signed off with Universal and the revision undertaken under supervision of  Peter  himself.  Despite it gave satisfaction, "it' s a great script" said Nancy Meyer, one of the Universal script supervisors, Fatal Break alas never went to production, possibly because of its potential cost:  many of of his scenes take place in the eastern italian alps, the impressive Dolomites where Cliff Hanger  first act was shot.  But  what was a negative factor according television standards could become a very plus in the context of film industry.  



​To do Columbo the movie, why not an american french team? Dealing rights of Fatal Break witth Universal,  a big time producer to lead the project and I to rewrite the story.

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Discover here Fatal Break, both as a Columbo story and as the incredible story of a project born in Paris that had not the slightest chance to be read by Peter Falk.