Joel and Ethan Coen are best known for their original films, but they have quite a fantastic record with adapted works as well. Past titles include the amazing No Country For Old Men and the spellbinding True Grit - and now it appears as though the writer/directors are planning to expand this area of their resume with a live-action take on author Ross MacDonald's Black Money. According to Deadline, Warner Bros. has optioned the rights to the 1960s crime novel, and while the Coens are currently only attached to write the script, they are viewing it as a potential directing vehicle as well. The film is going to be shepherded by famed producer Joel Silver - who knows a few things about making crime/detective movies, having previously been partially responsible for films like Lethal Weapon and The Last Boy Scout. First released in 1966, Black Money was one...
- 8/6/2015
- cinemablend.com
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen "will write and possibly direct an adaptation of Ross MacDonald’s bestselling novel Black Money," reports Variety's Justin Kroll. Also in today's roundup on projects in the works: William Friedkin will develop to direct an adaptation of Don Winslow's The Winter of Frankie Machine, even as Ridley Scott is in line to direct Shane Salerno's adaptation of Winslow's current bestseller, The Cartel. Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One will be released in December 2017. Joining Jesse Eisenberg, Blake Lively, Parker Posey, Kristen Stewart and Bruce Willis in Woody Allen's next as-yet-untitled project will be Corey Stoll, Ken Stott, Anna Camp, Stephen Kunken, Sari Lennick, Paul Schneider and Jeannie Berlin. » - David Hudson...
- 8/6/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen "will write and possibly direct an adaptation of Ross MacDonald’s bestselling novel Black Money," reports Variety's Justin Kroll. Also in today's roundup on projects in the works: William Friedkin will develop to direct an adaptation of Don Winslow's The Winter of Frankie Machine, even as Ridley Scott is in line to direct Shane Salerno's adaptation of Winslow's current bestseller, The Cartel. Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One will be released in December 2017. Joining Jesse Eisenberg, Blake Lively, Parker Posey, Kristen Stewart and Bruce Willis in Woody Allen's next as-yet-untitled project will be Corey Stoll, Ken Stott, Anna Camp, Stephen Kunken, Sari Lennick, Paul Schneider and Jeannie Berlin. » - David Hudson...
- 8/6/2015
- Keyframe
Looks like Joel Coen and Ethan Coen are returning to their noir roots and adding to their filmography of detective stories with Black Money. Deadline reports that the Coens are scripting the adaptation of Ross MacDonald's novel and could potentially direct it as well. In between directing Inside Llewyn Davis and the upcoming Hail Caesar!, the Coens wrote the screenplays for Angelina... Read More...
- 8/5/2015
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
What Pet Should I Get?, by Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) Oh, who knows the places you’ll go! The publishers, anyway, are planning a bank trip — Random House ordered a first printing of a million copies for Wpsig, believed to have been created by Seuss between 1958 and 1962 and then discovered, lost, and rediscovered by his widow. It features the kids from One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish and couplets that — you bet — rhyme pet with get. July 28, Random House; 48 pages; $18 Meanwhile There Are Letters, by Eudora Welty (1909–2001) and Ross Macdonald (1915–83) The odd-couple correspondence between southern novelist Welty and Canadian crime writer Macdonald amounts to an epistolary meet-cute, one touched with what if — Welty never wed, and Macdonald’s marriage was mild, facts hinted at in these letters’ gentle swings between platonic and romantic love. July 7, Arcade; 568 pages; $35...
- 6/3/2015
- by David Marchese
- Vulture
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