Didn't Crumley run into a similar situation? Weren't Milodragovich and Sughrue optioned by different studios? Isn't that why one played an unnamed bartender in a book featuring the other? I assume at least one of those options had lapsed by Bordersnakes where the two team up? Or was it Crumley's screw you to Hollywood? Damn, can't believe they've never made a movie out of Last Good Kiss.
And might that be why Brant has a different name when he visits Jack Taylor in one of his books? Or was it just because the two series had different publishers?
Mark
> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> From: Dave.Zeltserman@gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 01:52:09 +0000
> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re: Slayground
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> When I signed a film deal for Outsourced it ended up causing me problems that I had several characters in Outsourced who also appeared in Bad Thoughts and Bad Karma. Fortunately the book hadn't been published yet so I could change the character names, otherwise it would've been a mess. And my film agent read me the riot act about using the same characters between books.
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> I always enjoyed it when I was reading a Jim Thompson novel and characters from other books would show, but you just can't do it if you expect to sell film rights.
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> --Dave
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> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Allan Guthrie" <allan@...> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, what you're suggesting is exactly what Westlake did. To reinforce his
> > position, he wouldn't allow the name Parker to be used on screen.
> >
> > According to the link below (I can't verify the accuracy of the
> > information), the studios repeatedly bought the Philo Vance character rights
> > from one another to the point where they were 'inextricably tangled'. And
> > the first three William Powell Vance movies have been in a kind of legal
> > limbo for decades.
> > http://www.radioarchives.com/Philo_Vance_Volume_2_p/ra164.htm
> >
> > Al
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "docsavage80" <docsavage80@...>
> >
> >
> > >I suppose it depends upon the specific details of the deal. Surely the
> > >writer could allow himself or herself the out of restricting it to an
> > >adaptation of a specific book. Did not S.S. Van Dine have The Bishop Murder
> > >Case with Basil Rathbonde made by a completely different studio than then
> > >one that made the William Powell Philo Vance films?
> >
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