Die Januar-Ausgabe von „The Big Thrill“, der Zeitschrift der International Thriller Writers (ITW) ist online. Dieses Mal wird unter anderem „Watchlist: A Serial Thriller“ (geschrieben von 22 Thriller-Autoren, unter anderem Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child, Joseph Finder und Gayle Lynds) vorgestellt, es werden mehr oder weniger ausführliche Intervies mit, unter anderem, Douglas Preston, Tom Cain und Ken Bruen geführt und Mike Ripley schreibt über die von ihm betreute neue Serie mit klassischen Thrillern „Top Notch Thriller“ (kurz: TNT).
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Galore hat ein schon am 6. Mai 2008 geführtes Interview mit John Niven (Kill your Friends, Coma) online gestellt.
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Sean Chercover verrät seine fünf filmischen Favoriten.
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Jon Jordan (Crimespree Cinema) hat den neuen „Sherlock Holmes“ gesehen und meint:
I like the movie. I feel it treated the character with respect. The respect came from the screen writers who actually seem to have read some of the Conan Doyle works, Guy Ritchie who seemed to have done the same and Robert Downy Jr also really seemed tuned in to Holmes is. Jude Law was also fabulous as Watson.
One of the factors in my love of this film is the fact that they portray Holmes as a genius. A genius who is so much smarter than most other people that it makes him a bit crazy. He thinks on a whole other level, multiple things going on in his head at any given time. And like a lot of people thinking at that level, his social skills suffer. And this is where Watson really plays in, smart in his own right, he understands Holmes and as a result can help keep him motivated and focused. And Watson is not comic relief here, he actually contributes to the cases they work.
The film also remembers that Holmes can fight, and is capable of action.
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„Hardcore Angel“ Christa Faust freut sich: sie hat ihren Hard-Case-Crime-Roman „Money Shot“ nach Hollywood verkauft und darf jetzt auch das Drehbuch schreiben.
Über ihre ersten Erfahrungen beim Drehbuchschreiben sagt sie:
„First of all, I quickly discovered that some things work perfectly well in prose, but not so well in a more visual medium. Second, while novel writing is a mostly solitary job, films are much more collaborative. Each person involved brings their own input and ideas to the table and so it’s important to be able to work together as a team.“
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Und Schnittberichte dokumentiert die Filme, die 2009 nur gekürzt in Deutschland liefen.
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