Does anyone....

[midnight Target]

It was almost a movie.....

Hunter's books would make great movies. Why hasn't it happened

Hunter's day job is movie critic, and in a sense, each of his books is written by someone who has thought a lot about what makes a movie great. You can just tell his books would make killer movies, easily. However, no one's done it.

The closest call was "Point of Impact," which has been danced right up to the bedroom, so to speak, but never over the transome. In Hollywood, the project was last known as Shooter which was Officially Pronounced Dead by online Hollywood reporters November of 2000.

A year or so earler, whoever owns the script worked through several rewrites (!) and worked up a deal to get Keanu Reeves to play Bob Lee Swagger. Generally, Hunter fans disapproved. Keanu was too young, too pretty, to Gen-X'y for many. At the last minute, Keanu signed different contracts for double or triple the millions to do Matrix sequels, and he became unavailable.

But, Hollywood reported days later, the project was not dead. Al Gore's college roommate, Tommy Lee Jones, is now cast as Bob Lee, as soon as another rewrite is completed to match the age perspective of the star (ie put it back to the way Hunter wrote it). William Friedkin was going to direct. Friedkin and Jones had just completed "Rules of Engagement," a strong thriller in which Jones plays a military lifer, convincingly. The novel fans generally approve of the casting, judging from my emails.

Any way, latest word from the link above is that the project is in storage. Brighter things glittered in the spotlight that guides the folks who invest money in movies. Someday, they'll turn back Bob Lee Swagger's way.

Hunter did write a "novelization" of a movie. It was called "Target," is a good read, and a paperback copy irregularly sell on eBay for big bucks.

I pictured Sam Elliot as Bob Lee Swagger.

[JB73]

sry but "the matrix" was amazing to me...

one of the most original plot ideas ive seen in years

yeah you all might say the effects were hokey.... they were the first to use them so they were pretty cool looking.

[RightF00T]

Originally posted by weazel
I'm watching "There's Something About Mary" right now.

"Puffer?  

"Puffer!"

BZZZZTTTTTTT

shrecking hilarious!  

If you've never seen it, get it.

"Frank and Beans!!"

[JB73]

Originally posted by RightF00T
"Frank and Beans!!"

What the F*** is Brett Favre doing here LOLOLOLOLOLOL


Is that ........ hair gel.... cool i need some


I was just taking a leak



i know you belong with Brett Favreerrr (wisconsin joke)


i love that movie...


how about that visual  of the old bag and her boo**** LMFAOPMPASTC

[Dune]

Office Space - Does anyone at your work say "Someone has a case of the Mondays?  No.  Hell no.  I think you'd get your bellybutton beat for saying something like that."

Try the remake of "Twelve Angry Men" with George C. Scott, Jack Lemon, James Gadolfini.

Momento

Mulholland Drive was...well, interesting.  

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