Bogart. Gould. Mitchum. Neeson! That's right, Liam Neeson is joining the list of portaryers of Philip Marlowe, the iconic hardboiled detective created by Raymond Chandler. This time, though, Chandler is not the direct source of adaptation. According to Variety, the eponymously titled Marlowe will be based on John Banville's authorized 2014 novel The Black-Eyed Blonde (written under the name Benjamin Black), which features the character as its hero. Set in the 1950s, the book centers on a missing persons case that involves a rich and powerful family. William Monahan, the Oscar-winning writer of The Departed, adaped the work for the screen, and while it's not an actual Chandler novel he's working off, he says he has done the author...
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- 4/1/2017
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
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