Dark Winds: AMC, GRRM Bringing Tony Hillerman Crime Novels to Series Posted on Tony Hillerman's Navajo Nation crime novels Dark Skies for television. The series is based on the Hillerman's Leaphorn & Chee books that follow two Navajo police officers in the 1970s Southwest, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Creator Graham Rolan ( Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan) will be behind the series and will act as an executive producer along with Kiowa Gordon ( Vince Gerardis. Tony Hillerman's Dark Winds Comes to Television Also joining the aforementioned executive producers are author George R. R. Martin and screen legend, actor Robert Redford. Production secured permission to film on tribal lands in New Mexico. The first season will follow the officers' search for clues in a grisly double murder case that forces them to challenge their own spiritual beliefs and come to terms with the trauma of their pasts. "We're thrilled by the prospect of authentically telling this story with a group of remarkably talented individuals," said