(I have this sniggering desire to throw gasoline on the
fire.)
25-JANUARY-07
Graham Yost, creator and executive producer of the upcoming
NBC drama Raines, told SCI FI Wire that the series is heavily
influenced by the work of classic noir novelist Raymond
Chandler, particularly The Long Goodbye.
"My love of Los Angeles does come from the fact that I grew
up in Toronto and visited L.A. occasionally, but really got
to know it through Chandler," Yost said at the Television
Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif. "And,
truly, doing Raines was my sort of [chance] to actually write
something that had at least a flavor of Chandler and has a
character who is self-aware about that. He loves Chandler,
too, and that's part of his story."
In addition to Chandler's writings, Yost also referenced
various film adaptations, especially Robert Altman's 1972
film based on The Long Goodbye.
"What Altman did with Long Goodbye was to take Chandler and
put it in 1972," he said. "And it felt like a 1972 film, and
yet Elliott Gould still was this classic hard-boiled
detective. So it was still noir, but it was 1972. And we
wanted to do that for 2006, 2007. And I hope we've done it.
We've learned more and more about it as we went along."
Jeff Goldblum stars in the series as detective Michael
Raines, a homicide investigator who begins seeing and hearing
murder victims as he's working on their cases.
In a press conference, Goldblum said that he has always been
a fan of Chandler's work and spoke with Yost about the noir
inspiration as soon as he signed on to the project.
"Because of this, I watched The Long Goodbye again," he said.
"When we first talked about it, [Graham] even said, 'You
know, what we want sort of maybe in tone-we don't want to
copy anything-but look at Long Goodbye again. I said, 'I've
seen it many times.'"
Goldblum added that he found the character to be one of the
most interesting he's every played.
"I had one of the best times I've ever had in my whole life,"
he said.
"That's true. This cast, everybody is so great. And meeting
with Graham, he was so great, and Frank, I wanted to work
with them. I loved the idea. I loved the script and I loved
that character. And The Long Goodbye. ... We find out that he
pretends not to care and is indifferent, but is wildly
romantic and vulnerable and cares deeply and is idealistic,
in fact. There was something about this character like that
that I kind of fell in love with."
Raines premieres March 15 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. -Cindy
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