Re: RARA-AVIS: Ross Thomas

From: Richard Moore ( moorich2@aol.com)
Date: 04 Dec 2004


--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, BaxDeal@a... wrote:
>
> In a message dated 12/4/04 7:06:10 AM, dj_bassett@y... writes:
>
>
> > I wonder if Hollywood has ever been interested in
> > Thomas? Perhaps some kind of adaptation would help to
> > push Thomas's name forward. Plus, I have a feeling
> > Thomas would work very well on screen.
> >
>
> I believe Thomas wrote the original screenplay for Bad Company,
starring
> Lawrence Fishburn and Ellen Barkin, directed by Damian Harris
>
>

And Thomas was one of the writers called in to help out in the 1982 adaptation of Joe Gores' 1973 novel HAMMETT. Somewhere (The Armchair Detective?) I've read a funny interview with Gores (who also worked on the script) and Thomas about that movie, produced by Zoetrope and directed by Wim Wenders.

Richard Moore

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