...since I'm on the Digest option, someone else may well have
posted this; but if not, speaking (as we were) of
films-made-from-hb-novels, something to look forward
to.
Or not.
>From:
LawBloc@aol.com
>Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 14:22:14 EDT
>Subject: update: Harrison Ford says yes!
>
>I'm happy---no, let's make that thrilled---to
report:
>
>Harrison Ford evidently liked what he saw in the
script Scott Frank re-wrote
>at his suggestion, and has agreed to star in A WALK
AMONG THE TOMBSTONES for
>Jersey Films/Universal Pictures. Joe Carnahan, the
hit of the Sundance Film
>Festival with NARC, has been signed to direct, and
they expect to shoot the
>thing in January 2003.
>LB
IIRC, "Jersey Films" is Danny DeVito, right? Wonder if he'll
have a bit part.....
--
Bill Bowers
Burnt Bones (1999) may not be Slade's best but it does have
interesting moments. In one of them, the lead investigator, Mountie
Superintendent Robet DeClercq thinks about a comment attributed to Erle
Stanley Gardner regarding the author's pulp career; Gardner was known for
killing off the final heavies with the last bullet in the hero's gun, which
led some editors to tease him about the good guys being bad shots. Gardner
said "At three cents a word, every time I say 'Bang' in the story I get
three cents. If you think I'm going to finish the gun battle while my hero
still has fifteen cents worth of unexploded ammunition in his gun, you're
nuts." [cited on fictionmags]
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