Stephen Hunter book to film/Multiple thread merged

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Casting is bad. Looks like they tried to "fix" the story--it doesn't need it.

Might still be a good movie.
 
Why Mark Wahlberg!!!!!! :mad:
These have swagger
1993 Point of Impact
1994 Dirty White Boys
1996 Black Light
1998 Time to Hunt

I'm not sure about these
2000 Hot Springs
2001 Pale Horse Coming
2003 Havana
 
It's been a while since I read POI, but isn't Bob the Nailer a Vietnam vet? The action in POI is in the late 80s, so the character should at least be in his 40s, right? I mean, I understand if they need to update the screenplay for 2007, but IMO the idea was for the character to be a veteran scout/sniper. Like in the movie...uh...Sniper? ;)
 
Starship Troopers

:eek:

I'll stay away if they abort it that badly. ST the movie was so hacked, it hurts me to think about it.

jm
 
Makes me wish...

This makes me wish I was a federal prosecutor. I'd go out, rent a bunch of action movies and file charges against every felon with a gun I saw. Then I'd file charges against all the executive enablers who provided firearms to felons.

Of course that would either get Lautenberg repealed, or more likely create an exception for movie felons.
 
There will just be a few "minor" changes in the Hollywood script.

They are combining the Swagger and Memphis characters, and making him a fun-loving ATF agent, who was a Viet Nam anti-war activist, who lost his wife to Gun Violence.

/sarcasm
 
I read the stepehen hunter novels while working graveyard security in '94. that job lasted about 3 weeks. couldnt stay up all night.

I always envisisoned Tommy lee Jones. R Lee Ermey could do a good job as well.

All the Hunter books are good.

I think the ones with his father are even better. When Castro dies, mayeb they could make Havana...
 
Are there any actors out there that actually look like Carlos Hathcock?
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I thought that was Billy Bob Thornton at first, he'd work wouldn't he. If you were going for a look a like. I don't know Billy Bob's stance on guns, but being he started out in Hollywood as an obvious redneck type (no offense anyone), he might be perfect.
 
Swagger would have been 40ish in 1983.

soooo, who's 40ish and can pull it off?
Not politically, but from a performance standpoint. Forget these old guys. Sam Elliott? Seriously? He's old enough to play him in 2007, but too old for 1983. Think about it.
So, who's left?
I like the idea of a great actor, but a quiet no-name is probably better. Marky Mark, not my first choice, of course.
I'd like it to be a break for someone new, because that's what it needs. New, beacause this type of character hasn't been seen for thirty-odd years.
And the vietnam stuff is imperative to the story, but will be lost on today's primary audience. These moviegoers don't know anything about the Nam. (like I know what the hell I'm talking about. I was born in 74.)
 
If Swagger is going to be a VN vet in a movie set today, he's going to have to be in his 60s: too old for the part. They will probably change his "era" to Desert Storm, to get the ages right. That means dropping the 100 kills sniper part. IOW, the book is too old to set in 2007, without major rework.
 
They are combining the Swagger and Memphis characters, and making him a fun-loving ATF agent, who was a Viet Nam anti-war activist, who lost his wife to Gun Violence.
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SOME of us are trying to eat our oatmeal right now...you're not helping. :D
 
Originally posted by ReadyOnTheRight:
I always pictured Clint Eastwood when reading those books.
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Interestingly, in Time to Hunt a supporting character described him as looking like Clint Eastwood - and talking like Gomer Pyle. ;)

Mark Wahlberg? Good grief. :rolleyes: Since Bob's character is described as lean and "sinewy" with piercing eyes and Clint is too old, I always thought ...
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... might make a good Bob, except AFAIK he isn't Southern.
 
Multiple threads or not, I can't understand why so many expect the movie to be nearly as good as the book. Has anyone ever read a book then seen the movie, and thought that the movie was better, or even as good?

I can personally think of three. Three for me, in 44 years.

"The Outlaw, Josey Wales" was in my opinion, a much better movie than a book. It was adapted from the book Gone to Texas, BUT, I'd seen the movie something like 22 times before I read the book, so I may have been biased.

The mini-series "Lonesome Dove" was adapted the most accurately from its book, in my opinion. Leaving out the bull / grizzly bear fight did not detract from the series.

Finally, The Stand (the original book, not the un-abridged version) which I've read at least 15 times, was a wonderfully adapted mini-series. Of course there was no way to incorporate all the aspects of King's imagination into film, but they did a great job.

Now that I've mentioned Stephen King, I'll have to update my number to 4; 4 in 44 years.

A mini-series of The Shining, starring Stephen Weber (the goofy brother from the TV series "Wings") was superb. Kubrick's film with Jack Nicholson was horrendous.

Point-of-Impact will likely be along the lines of Kubrick's "Shining"; just enough of the book in the movie to remind you of it, but nowhere true to the book.

Sam
 
There's been a few, the movies made from Louis Lamour's books have been very good. Course, Mr. Lamour helped in making them, and John Wayne,
Tom Selleck, Sam Elliot.... great cowboy actors!

Best in the New Year......... Mike
 
Multiple threads on this subject merged.

LawDog
 
Sounds good . . . but then I remember what "they" did to The Sum of All Fears . . .
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Make a movie that, while it departed heavily from the book, had some excellent directing and some great performances, as well as a few set pieces that just knocked your socks off?

I'd be all over that.
 
Liam Niessen (spelling?) would be great for the part. He played a southerner in some Patrick Swayze film and did a great job. and he can look the part.

I really hope Hollywood doesn't screw up this book - I have read it about 8 times and really loved it.

Cross your fingers.
 
Robert Duvall, if he was 25 years younger, or Sam Shepard if he wasn't shacking-up with a left-wing moonbat would make a good Bob the Nailer.

And so would Ed Harris; he was great as the psychopath bad guy in "A History of Violence."
 
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