ChuckHogan Tagged Articles at Cinematical
Jon Hamm Heads to 'The Town'
Filed under: Thrillers », Casting »
Slowly but surely, Don Draper is making his way to the big screen, in what I'm sure will be a long and prosperous career. After making waves with Mad Men, Jon Hamm scored the Jake Ehrlich role in Howl, and then found himself the prime pick on Peter Martin's "TV Stars Who Should Be in More Movies (Male Edition)." Now The Hollywood Reporter posts that Hamm and Rebecca Hall will star alongside Ben Affleck in The Town. As I briefly mentioned last year, The Town is a full-on Affleck production -- he helped write it, will direct, and will star. An adaptation of Chuck Hogan's Prince of Thieves (not the Robin Hood sort of thievery), the film focuses on the blossoming romance between a bank manager (Hall) and a career criminal (Affleck) who robbed her, as an FBI agent (Hamm) tries to bring the thief and his gang to justice.Will this be anything like Two of a Kind? You know -- John Travolta holds up a bank and the poor Olivia Newton John, and then the pair become pawns in a game between God, his angels, and the Devil? Not likely -- this is a crime thriller, and according to Publishers Weekly, most of the characters "are not very sympathetic." So, the most we can hope for is more solid fare that reminds us of Affleck's talents as he continues to re-build the career dashed by Beniffer #1.
From Page to Screen: 'The Strain'
Filed under: Horror », From Page to Screen »
When he went on the Late Late Show to promote The Strain, Guillermo del Toro – who co-wrote his first novel with seasoned crime writer Chuck Hogan – told Craig Ferguson that his goal with the book was to reclaim vampire lore from the decidedly unmenacing lover-vampires popularized by Anne Rice and, God forbid, Stephenie Meyer. (Watch the Late Late Show excerpt below the jump – worth it just for Ferguson's uncannily accurate take on Twilight.) I do think he overstates his case a bit – the last decade has offered such a surfeit of vampire stories, that there would seem to be something for everyone (not least del Toro's own Blade II, easily the best of that franchise). Still, I'm grateful to have del Toro's twisted imagination provide an antidote to the glittering fairy-vampire nonsense everyone always insists on discussing these days.The novel, which came out June 2nd, just popped up in the #9 spot on the New York Times Bestseller List. It's not every day that a filmmaker as worshipped as del Toro makes a popular literary foray, so I thought The Strain was worth talking about. It is not currently pegged for a film adaptation, but I suspect that won't remain the case for very long. Whatever its merits as a book, it would make a kickass horror flick.
Watch This: Teaser for Del Toro's 'The Strain'
Filed under: Fandom », Trailers and Clips »
The fancy folks behind Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan's vampire trilogy have created an awesomely creepy trailer to tease us for The Strain: Book One of The Strain Trilogy's release June 2nd. I try to avoid buying hardcover books, but this will be an exception!Del Toro tells Wired, ""I'm not good at forensic novels. I'm not good at hazmat language and that CSI-style precision. When [Bram] Stoker wrote Dracula, it was very modern, a CSI sort of novel. I wanted to give The Strain a procedural feel, where everything seems real." A little bit of potty mouth and violence makes this video a dicey proposition for viewing at work, but your mileage may vary. Video after the jump.
Adrian Lyne, Prince of Thieves
Filed under: Drama », Thrillers », Deals », Mystery & Suspense », Warner Brothers », Scripts », Newsstand »
After a break of nearly five years since his last film (Unfaithful), Adrian Lyne has suddenly rediscovered his interest in Hollywood: He's got two projects on his plate, though neither is likely hit screens before mid-2007 at the earliest. The first, Two Minutes to Midnight, is alleged by the IMDb to be in pre-production, but has been in the news only as a project in which Tom Cruise was briefly interested; no cast is listed, and there's been no mention of the film in the trades since the Cruise rumor -- heaven knows if it's actually being made. The second, announced in The Hollywood Reporter this morning, will be based on Prince of Thieves, an award-winning crime novel by Chuck Hogan. This one is in the very early stages; Warner Bros. will be producing, and they've just hired outrageously busy screenwriter Sheldon Turner (who, coincidentally (?), also had a hand in the Two Minutes to Midnight script) to adapt.I actually read Hogan's novel pretty recently and, while the writing wasn't as good as I'd hoped (it having won a Hammett Award for "excellence in crime writing" and all), there's definitely a movie in there. The book revolves around four small-time criminal who pull a bank heist together, but the focus is much more on their relationships than the heist, which happens at book's open. Needless to say, the job isn't pulled off quite as cleanly as they'd hoped, and things snowball in unexpected ways. There's a lot of tension in the story, and some great characters for big-name actors to really sink their teeth into. This is a project I'll be watching, for sure.
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