From a pop culture perspective, private detectives stand for all that’s memorable about film noir. The indifference, the wittiness, and the moral ambiguity that define each urban knight has since become the stuff of parodied legend. We’re talking about the mediators between the crooks and the cops, the embodiment of back alley grayness that’s so tough to pin down. P.I.’s could cooperate with the law if needed, but they could just as soon do business with the bad guys for the right price. To a certain extent, that is – shamus work has always attracted the ignored and the ethical. The Wild West has mythical men with no name, The Asphalt Jungle has names with investigating licenses attached to them. Instead of a poncho and a ten gallon hat, they’re provided a fedora and trench coat.
The archetype has undergone many faces throughout Hollywood’s history,...
The archetype has undergone many faces throughout Hollywood’s history,...
- 2/16/2016
- by Danilo Castro
- CinemaNerdz
It’s always a treat to hear what the Coen Brothers are up to. With their latest film Hail, Caesar! having just wrapped, it’s no surprise that the famous duo are looking for a new project. According to Deadline, the Coen Brothers are set to write and possibly direct an adaptation of Kenneth Millar’s crime novel Black Money (which he wrote under the pseudonym Ross Macdonald) for Warner Bros.
The novel itself is part of a series of crime stories centering on Lew Archer, a private detective working out of Southern California (think Philip Marlowe as played by Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep). In this story, Archer is hired by a man rejected by his girlfriend who wants Archer to investigate the man she has run off with, leading Archer into a world of money schemes. While having written many stories with Lew Archer as the main character,...
The novel itself is part of a series of crime stories centering on Lew Archer, a private detective working out of Southern California (think Philip Marlowe as played by Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep). In this story, Archer is hired by a man rejected by his girlfriend who wants Archer to investigate the man she has run off with, leading Archer into a world of money schemes. While having written many stories with Lew Archer as the main character,...
- 8/6/2015
- by Sarah Pearce Lord
- SoundOnSight
From Star Trek: Generations through to Star Trek: Nemesis - here are 47 nerdy spots in the Next Generation films...
Since Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979, the Star Trek cinematic outings have proved to be a smorgasbord of references and famous actors (or those who would go on to be), and often had complex behind the scenes events that stopped some rather, ahem, fascinating moments making it to the final version. We found lots of nerdy spots in the first six films here.
This time out we look at the films featuring the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation and choose 47 factoids. Granted, there's a lot more than that of interest, but we've tried for ones that you might not be aware of.
Oh, and there are some major spoilers...
Star Trek: Generations (1994)
1. The first of the Next Generation films was something of a rush job as principal photography...
Since Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979, the Star Trek cinematic outings have proved to be a smorgasbord of references and famous actors (or those who would go on to be), and often had complex behind the scenes events that stopped some rather, ahem, fascinating moments making it to the final version. We found lots of nerdy spots in the first six films here.
This time out we look at the films featuring the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation and choose 47 factoids. Granted, there's a lot more than that of interest, but we've tried for ones that you might not be aware of.
Oh, and there are some major spoilers...
Star Trek: Generations (1994)
1. The first of the Next Generation films was something of a rush job as principal photography...
- 6/3/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Neal Thompson is Senior Editor at Amazon Books. He is also a journalist & author, amateur photographer/videographer, and compulsive reader-writer. Neal interviewed Michael Connelly, creator of Bosch, a new Amazon Original Pilot.
In 1992, a seasoned crime reporter named Michael Connelly published his first novel, the story of a body in a drainpipe, a bank robbery, and police corruption, based partly on a true crime that had occurred in La. Featuring Hieronymous “Harry” Bosch, a Vietnam vet turned Lapd detective, The Black Echo won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, established Connelly as a new voice in the mystery/thriller world and Bosch as one of the more complex characters in modern crime fiction.
Now, more than a dozen novels later, Bosch is coming to the little screen. Amazon Studios has produced the first episode in a hoped-for series entitled Bosch, co-written by Connelly and with Titus Welliver (who has...
In 1992, a seasoned crime reporter named Michael Connelly published his first novel, the story of a body in a drainpipe, a bank robbery, and police corruption, based partly on a true crime that had occurred in La. Featuring Hieronymous “Harry” Bosch, a Vietnam vet turned Lapd detective, The Black Echo won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, established Connelly as a new voice in the mystery/thriller world and Bosch as one of the more complex characters in modern crime fiction.
Now, more than a dozen novels later, Bosch is coming to the little screen. Amazon Studios has produced the first episode in a hoped-for series entitled Bosch, co-written by Connelly and with Titus Welliver (who has...
- 2/10/2014
- Hollywonk
A week before he died in 2006, author Mickey Spillane turned to his wife and said, “When I’m gone, there’s going to be a treasure hunt around here. Take everything you find and give it to Max – he’ll know what to do.”
“Max” is Max Allan Collins. He was, for a number of reasons, an ideal choice to be the keeper of the Spillane flame.
A fan of Spillane’s since he’d been a kid, Collins had met the mystery writer at a convention in the early 1980s. The connection developed into both friendship and regular collaboration. But Collins was no junior partner in the duo.
Born in Muscatine, Iowa in 1948, he’s been writing mysteries since he was a kid, eventually studying in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa, one of the most renowned writing programs in the country.
By the late 1970s,...
“Max” is Max Allan Collins. He was, for a number of reasons, an ideal choice to be the keeper of the Spillane flame.
A fan of Spillane’s since he’d been a kid, Collins had met the mystery writer at a convention in the early 1980s. The connection developed into both friendship and regular collaboration. But Collins was no junior partner in the duo.
Born in Muscatine, Iowa in 1948, he’s been writing mysteries since he was a kid, eventually studying in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa, one of the most renowned writing programs in the country.
By the late 1970s,...
- 5/17/2012
- by Bill Mesce
- SoundOnSight
Peter Landesman has been hired to adapt the script for a film adaptation of Ross Macdonald's 1959 novel "The Galton Case" for Warner Bros. Pictures and Silver Pictures reports Deadline.
The plan is to launch a potential film noir franchise from the property starting with this eighth book in the series following private detective Lew Archer. Joel Silver will produce.
Archer is a P.I. who cracks dangerous cases in Southern California in the 1950s and 60s. In 'Galton' he's hired to track down the lost heir to a family fortune - a job that leads to a trail of murder, deception and secrets.
Paul Newman played the character twice - in 1966's "Harper" and 1975's "The Drowning Pool". Landesman most recently scripted "The Mission" for Warners and a film about former FBI man Mark Felt (the famed 'Deep Throat' in the Watergate scandal).
The plan is to launch a potential film noir franchise from the property starting with this eighth book in the series following private detective Lew Archer. Joel Silver will produce.
Archer is a P.I. who cracks dangerous cases in Southern California in the 1950s and 60s. In 'Galton' he's hired to track down the lost heir to a family fortune - a job that leads to a trail of murder, deception and secrets.
Paul Newman played the character twice - in 1966's "Harper" and 1975's "The Drowning Pool". Landesman most recently scripted "The Mission" for Warners and a film about former FBI man Mark Felt (the famed 'Deep Throat' in the Watergate scandal).
- 3/7/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Don’t take my word as gospel (in this or any other situation), but it sort of feels like studios are putting more and more of their efforts into novel adaptations over the past month, give or take whatever unit of time feels right to you. Ten years ago — a very different time for Hollywood, admittedly — this wouldn’t be any big deal; actually, it would be the order of the day. In a town choked by comic books, toys, and board games, though, a nice page-turner being committed to digital hard drives is almost a breath of fresh air. (We can get into why this is also a pretty bad thing at some other point.)
Next in line is The Galton Case, Warners’ developing adaptation of Ross Macdonald‘s eighth novel to follow his signature Lew Archer character. (Someone that would go on to be played twice by Paul Newman.
Next in line is The Galton Case, Warners’ developing adaptation of Ross Macdonald‘s eighth novel to follow his signature Lew Archer character. (Someone that would go on to be played twice by Paul Newman.
- 3/7/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Warner Bros and Silver Pictures have set Peter Landesman to adapt The Galton Case, one of the titles in the Ross Macdonald mystery series about private detective Lew Archer. Landesman will look to reinvent the mystery series as Silver Pictures tries to launch a franchise. The series was previously turned into two movies; Paul Newman played Archer in the 1966 Warner Bros film Harper and 1975 film The Drowning Pool. The 1959 novel The Galton Case was the eighth book in the series. Landesman, a New York Times Magazine foreign correspondent, most recently scripted The Mission for Warner Bros. That film is about Operation Jaque, a daring rescue of 15 captives that included former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt from Farc militants who moved the hostages around in the Colombian jungles some of them being held as long as 15 years. That film has David O Russell circling as director, with Brad Pitt being courted to star.
- 3/7/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Fans of hard-boiled detective novels – and the movies they’re made into – worship at the altar of Raymond Chandler (The Long Goodbye, The Big Sleep) and Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man), but unless you’re seriously into noir, the name Ross MacDonald is often skipped. MacDonald wrote a series of highly praised private eye yarns featuring a SoCal detective named Lew Archer.
Two of Archer’s eight adventures were filmed (with Archer’s name changed to Lew Harper, for whatever reason) as Harper in 1966 and The Drowning Pool in 1975, both starring Paul Newman as the gumshoe. Now, Deadline reports that The Matrix and Sherlock Holmes super-producer Joel Silver is reviving the series with Warner Bros., staring with the eighth novel of the series, The Galton Case.
Silver Pictures and Random House Films will team on the film, with Rhf head exec Peter Gethers joining the holder of the series’ rights,...
Two of Archer’s eight adventures were filmed (with Archer’s name changed to Lew Harper, for whatever reason) as Harper in 1966 and The Drowning Pool in 1975, both starring Paul Newman as the gumshoe. Now, Deadline reports that The Matrix and Sherlock Holmes super-producer Joel Silver is reviving the series with Warner Bros., staring with the eighth novel of the series, The Galton Case.
Silver Pictures and Random House Films will team on the film, with Rhf head exec Peter Gethers joining the holder of the series’ rights,...
- 11/1/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
While 7,772 petitioners are still waiting for that “Veronica Mars” movie (Warner Bros. is apparently just going to ignore $80,000 in potential box office receipts), Joel Silver is moving on with his life by producing “The Galton Case,” a Ross Macdonald mystery novel about private detective Lew Archer. 'Galton' is the eighth book in a series of novels about Archer. Why not start with any of the first seven tomes? It’s either that one through seven are really bad, or the eighth one is just that good. Regardless, Warner Bros. has acquired rights to the entire series (maybe they’ll work…...
- 11/1/2011
- The Playlist
According to reports, Warner Bros. plans to adapt the 1959 novel "The Galton Case", by author Ross Macdonald, with the character of private detective 'Lew Archer', (renamed 'Lew Harper'), returning to the big screen for producer Joel Silver :
"...almost twenty years have passed since 'Anthony Galton' disappeared, along with a streetwise bride and thousands of dollars of his family's fortune. Now Anthony's mother wants him back..."
Macdonald's 1949 novel, "The Moving Target" was adapted into the 1966 feature "Harper" starring actor Paul Newman.
Newman starred again starred as the private detective character in the 1975 feature "The Drowning Pool".
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"...almost twenty years have passed since 'Anthony Galton' disappeared, along with a streetwise bride and thousands of dollars of his family's fortune. Now Anthony's mother wants him back..."
Macdonald's 1949 novel, "The Moving Target" was adapted into the 1966 feature "Harper" starring actor Paul Newman.
Newman starred again starred as the private detective character in the 1975 feature "The Drowning Pool".
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- 11/1/2011
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Lew Archer will be adapted to the big screen again. Warner Brothers Pictures acquired the rights to Ross Macdonald’s detective novels on Lew Archer. Deadline also reported the first film of the franchise will be based on the 1959 novel “The Galton Case,” which is the eighth book of the series. Here is a brief synopsis of the book: Rich boy Anthony Galton had dropped out of sight more than twenty years ago. To Lew Archer that meant the man was either dead or didn’t want to be found. But Tony’s nice old mother had a dream that her son would still come home before she died. So Archer took on the case hoping that Tony and Mom could live happily ever after…until he discovered that once upon a time there was a clever swindle, a scared blonde, and a very nasty murder. Eighteen Lew Archer novels...
- 10/31/2011
- LRMonline.com
Ross Macdonald's mystery series about private detective Lew Archer is being turned into a feature film franchise. Deadline reports that Warner Bros has bought film rights to the series, and will develop 1959's The Galton Case, the eighth novel in the series. The character has been given a new life thanks to Silver Pictures’ Joel Silver who will produce.
Archer is "a private eye who cracked dangerous cases in Southern California in the 1950s and 60s." In The Galton Case, Archer is "hired to track down the lost heir to the Galton fortune. His path leads him through a trail of murder, deception and a tangle of secrets." The studio will hire a writer soon to script what they see as an elevated noir franchise. Paul Newman played the character of Archer in the 1966 Warner Bros film Harper and 1975 film The Drowning Pool.
I think that this story sounds...
Archer is "a private eye who cracked dangerous cases in Southern California in the 1950s and 60s." In The Galton Case, Archer is "hired to track down the lost heir to the Galton fortune. His path leads him through a trail of murder, deception and a tangle of secrets." The studio will hire a writer soon to script what they see as an elevated noir franchise. Paul Newman played the character of Archer in the 1966 Warner Bros film Harper and 1975 film The Drowning Pool.
I think that this story sounds...
- 10/31/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
You gotta love a good detective story. Hollywood certainly does, and over the years some of the best fictional detectives have made their way onto TV and movie screens, played by actors ranging from Humphrey Bogart to James Garner. We've seen Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe, and the troubled, broken men of James Ellroy's worlds. One classic gumshoe of the printed page who hasn't gotten his due in a while is Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer, star of over a dozen novels, including The Drowning Pool and The Way Some People Die. Now Deadline reports that Archer will be returning to the big screen in The Galton Case, courtesy of Warner Bros. and producer Joel Silver. Lew Archer is an old-school Southern Californian private dick in the vein of Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade. The Galton Case is actually the eighth book in the Archer series,...
- 10/31/2011
- cinemablend.com
The late Paul Newman played private detective Lew Archer in Harper and The Drowning Pool from 1966 and 1975 respectively, and now Deadline reports Warner Bros. is looking to revive the character with a new franchise kicking off with an adaptation of Ross Macdonald's novel The Galton Case, the eighth book featuring Archer. Throughout the book series, Archer deals with dangerous cases in Southern California in the 50's and 60's, but it's not yet clear if the potential film series will keep the period locations from when the books were actually written, or if the "elevated noir" story will be updated for contemporary times. In The Galton Case, Archer investigates the case of Anthony Galton, a man who has been missing for 20 years after disappearing with a suspiciously streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of his family's fortune. What turns up is a headless skeleton, a boy who claims to ...
- 10/31/2011
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Warner Bros. Pictures and Random House Films have acquired the film rights to Ross Macdonald's mystery novel series following private detective Lew Archer says Deadline.
The plan is to launch a potential film noir franchise from the property starting with the eighth book in the series, 1959's "The Galton Case". Joel Silver will produce.
Archer is a P.I. who cracks dangerous cases in Southern California in the 1950s and 60s. In 'Galton' he's hired to track down the lost heir to a family fortune - a job that leads to a trail of murder, deception and secrets.
A writer will soon be hired to adapt the script. Paul Newman played the character twice - in 1966's "Harper" and 1975's "The Drowning Pool".
The plan is to launch a potential film noir franchise from the property starting with the eighth book in the series, 1959's "The Galton Case". Joel Silver will produce.
Archer is a P.I. who cracks dangerous cases in Southern California in the 1950s and 60s. In 'Galton' he's hired to track down the lost heir to a family fortune - a job that leads to a trail of murder, deception and secrets.
A writer will soon be hired to adapt the script. Paul Newman played the character twice - in 1966's "Harper" and 1975's "The Drowning Pool".
- 10/31/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Warner Bros acquired rights to the Ross Macdonald mystery series about private detective Lew Archer. The studio will launch a franchise, starting with the 1959 novel The Galton Case, which was the eighth book in the series. Paul Newman played Archer in the 1966 Warner Bros film Harper and 1975 film The Drowning Pool. Silver Pictures’ Joel Silver will produce and Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman will be executive producers. Silver will partner with Random House Films on the movie, and Rhf head Peter Gethers exec producing with series rights holder Stephen White. Archer is a private eye who cracked dangerous cases in Southern California in the 1950s and 60s. In The Galton Case, Archer is hired to track down the lost heir to the Galton fortune. His path leads him through a trail of murder, deception and a tangle of secrets. The studio will hire a writer soon to script what...
- 10/31/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
The studio is looking to return the Ross Macdonald written mystery novel series about the exploits of sleuth Lew Archer to the big screen. Mega-producer Joe Silver has also signed on to the project. Rich boy Anthony Galton had dropped out of sight more than twenty years ago. To Lew Archer that meant the man was either dead or didn't want to be found. But Tony's nice old mother had a dream that her son would still come home before she died. So Archer took on the case hoping that Tony and Mom could live happily ever after... until he discovered that once upon a time there was a clever swindle, a scared blonde, and a very nasty murder. The Lew Archer series of books was published in the 1950s and 60s, with The Galton Case being its eighth. Starting in 1966, it spun off a couple of films,...
- 10/31/2011
- by Eric Whitman
- The Daily BLAM!
Warner Bros. has plans to return to the literary works of Ross Macdonald, bringing his private detective, Lew Harper, back to the big screen for the first time in more than 30 years. Deadline reports that Joel Silver is set to launch a franchise with the eighth book in the series, The Galton Case . The 1959 novel is officially described as follows: Almost twenty years have passed since Anthony Galton disappeared, along with a suspiciously streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of his family's fortune. Now Anthony's mother wants him back and has hired Lew Archer to find him. What turns up is a headless skeleton, a boy who claims to be Galton's son, and a con game whose stakes are so high that someone is still willing to kill for them. Macdonald's original 18 novels...
- 10/31/2011
- Comingsoon.net
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