Raymond Chandler’s gumshoe hero is resurrected in this period adaptation of a novel by John Banville – a film that looks good but lacks a spark
Raymond Chandler’s famous detective Philip Marlowe doesn’t quite come back to life in this new movie from Neil Jordan, adapted from a novel by Booker prize winner John Banville, writing under his genre pen name Benjamin Black. There are some droll touches and the prewar Los Angeles production design looks good. But listening to the dialogue sometimes feels like wading through treacle. The wisecracks fizzle, and Liam Neeson, in the leading role, is not exactly on his most dynamic form. The way the character has been conceived seems to accentuate an exhausted worldweariness and, while I’m sure that Neeson could have given the part some of the wiry strength of a Humphrey Bogart or Elliot Gould, he somehow always looks as...
Raymond Chandler’s famous detective Philip Marlowe doesn’t quite come back to life in this new movie from Neil Jordan, adapted from a novel by Booker prize winner John Banville, writing under his genre pen name Benjamin Black. There are some droll touches and the prewar Los Angeles production design looks good. But listening to the dialogue sometimes feels like wading through treacle. The wisecracks fizzle, and Liam Neeson, in the leading role, is not exactly on his most dynamic form. The way the character has been conceived seems to accentuate an exhausted worldweariness and, while I’m sure that Neeson could have given the part some of the wiry strength of a Humphrey Bogart or Elliot Gould, he somehow always looks as...
- 3/14/2023
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
"Marlowe" is the new 'neo-noir' crime thriller feature, directed by Neil Jordan, based on the 2014 novel "The Black-Eyed Blonde" by Benjamin Black, starring Liam Neeson ("Excalibur"), Diane Kruger, Jessica Lange, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Alan Cumming, Francois Arnaud, Ian Hart, Danny Huston, Daniela Melchior and Colm Meaney, opening in theaters, February 15, 2023:
"...in 1939, On a listless LA day, a beautiful young woman turns up in the Pi's office. She is 'Mrs Clare Cavendish', heiress to a perfume fortune built by an Irish immigrant family, the 'Langrishes'.
"Mrs C hires Marlowe to find former lover, 'Nico Peterson', who has disappeared.
"The private eye soon learns that Peterson has been killed and cremated, although this information becomes increasingly questionable as the investigator follows the trail deeper into the company..."
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"...in 1939, On a listless LA day, a beautiful young woman turns up in the Pi's office. She is 'Mrs Clare Cavendish', heiress to a perfume fortune built by an Irish immigrant family, the 'Langrishes'.
"Mrs C hires Marlowe to find former lover, 'Nico Peterson', who has disappeared.
"The private eye soon learns that Peterson has been killed and cremated, although this information becomes increasingly questionable as the investigator follows the trail deeper into the company..."
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- 2/6/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Sovereign Pro Wrestling (or SovPro) is the new recently launched independent Wrestling company in the UK. The brainchild of Adam “Shotty Horroh” Rooney and Zubie Baig. A dream years in the making that promises to show off some of the best in the UK and beyond. It’s been a long journey for SovPro to get to their first official show but at the Trinity Sports Centre in Manchester on October 1st, SovPro would host their first official event…
First Reign was to be the showcase for this fledgling company as they put their flag in the sand and declare to the world that “some said they wasn’t gonna show up” but they are here. A 3-hour show with no less than 8 matches with roughly 26 workers including the likes of up-and-comers like Kidd Bandit, Harley Hudson, Joey Hayes and Whatculture’s own Simon Miller.
Sadly I could not make...
First Reign was to be the showcase for this fledgling company as they put their flag in the sand and declare to the world that “some said they wasn’t gonna show up” but they are here. A 3-hour show with no less than 8 matches with roughly 26 workers including the likes of up-and-comers like Kidd Bandit, Harley Hudson, Joey Hayes and Whatculture’s own Simon Miller.
Sadly I could not make...
- 11/2/2022
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
Exclusive: Storyboard Media and CAA Media Finance are launching sales on detective thriller Marlowe ahead of the Cannes virtual market, we can reveal.
Taken star Liam Neeson is set to lead the noir thriller about Raymond Chandler’s iconic detective Philip Marlowe with Oscar-winner Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) directing Oscar-winner William Monahan’s (The Departed) script.
The project has a great premise, one that Neeson could excel in. Based on the novel The Black-Eyed Blonde, the 1950’s-set film will see private detective Marlowe (Neeson) hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress. Initially it looks an open and shut case, but Marlowe soon finds himself in the underbelly of Hollywood’s film industry and unwittingly drawn into the crossfire of a legendary Hollywood actress and her subversive, ambitious daughter.
The project, which was first revealed in 2017, now has new impetus with producers and sellers taking the package to...
Taken star Liam Neeson is set to lead the noir thriller about Raymond Chandler’s iconic detective Philip Marlowe with Oscar-winner Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) directing Oscar-winner William Monahan’s (The Departed) script.
The project has a great premise, one that Neeson could excel in. Based on the novel The Black-Eyed Blonde, the 1950’s-set film will see private detective Marlowe (Neeson) hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress. Initially it looks an open and shut case, but Marlowe soon finds himself in the underbelly of Hollywood’s film industry and unwittingly drawn into the crossfire of a legendary Hollywood actress and her subversive, ambitious daughter.
The project, which was first revealed in 2017, now has new impetus with producers and sellers taking the package to...
- 6/8/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Production earmarked for October; will take place in Los Angeles, Europe.
Liam Neeson will portray hardboiled detective Philip Marlowe in Neil Jordan’s Marlowe based on a screenplay by William Monahan, with Storyboard Media handling sales at the upcoming virtual Cannes market.
Storyboard Media, H2L Media, Nickel City Pictures and Parallel Film Productions are producing and have lined up an October start on production, which will take place in Los Angeles and Europe.
Monahan adapted the screenplay from the novel The Black-Eyed Blonde by Benjamin Black, the pseudonym of John Banville who received the blessing of the Raymond Chandler...
Liam Neeson will portray hardboiled detective Philip Marlowe in Neil Jordan’s Marlowe based on a screenplay by William Monahan, with Storyboard Media handling sales at the upcoming virtual Cannes market.
Storyboard Media, H2L Media, Nickel City Pictures and Parallel Film Productions are producing and have lined up an October start on production, which will take place in Los Angeles and Europe.
Monahan adapted the screenplay from the novel The Black-Eyed Blonde by Benjamin Black, the pseudonym of John Banville who received the blessing of the Raymond Chandler...
- 6/8/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
With his second feature Mojave under his belt, writer-director William Monahan (The Departed) has decided to return to the writer’s chair with an adaptation of Benjamin Black‘s novel “The Black-Eyed Blonde.” Variety now reports that producers Nickel City Pictures and Gary Levinson have found their lead in Liam Neeson, whose no stranger to the dark crime underworld. Neeson will star in Marlowe as the titular character Philip Marlowe of Raymond Chandler fame.
The character has a special set of skills that involve being restless and lonely until a beautiful woman shakes up the hard-bit private detectives world, sending him on a dark quest through a twisted mystery. You know, classic noir stuff with Liam Neeson. Scribe Monahan said:
The book by Benjamin Black was a pleasure to adapt, and with Marlowe there’s no chance of even being asked to do it left-handed. You have to do Chandler justice,...
The character has a special set of skills that involve being restless and lonely until a beautiful woman shakes up the hard-bit private detectives world, sending him on a dark quest through a twisted mystery. You know, classic noir stuff with Liam Neeson. Scribe Monahan said:
The book by Benjamin Black was a pleasure to adapt, and with Marlowe there’s no chance of even being asked to do it left-handed. You have to do Chandler justice,...
- 4/3/2017
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
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