Excellent question. No clue as to why anybody involved felt the need to rent
the character names, if things are going to be so different. Given the number
of recognizable names attached (including a blink and you'll miss him Marc
Maron), I would assume the film could be greenlit without the Spenser
connection.
I suspect that they 'adapted' a book that wasn't actually written by Parker
because it would be easier to get the rights/wouldn't necessarily have to get
permission from Parker's estate.
I did botch the date of the premiere, it's March 6.
David
On Friday, January 31, 2020, 12:17:38 AM EST, Kevin M.
<[email protected]> wrote:
What. The f*ck. Was that?
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 9:13 PM 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV
<[email protected]> wrote:
Picking up a thread from June 2018, because the movie in question, Spenser
Confidential, is slated to debut on Netflix March 20.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/tvornottv/Spenser/tvornottv/PokuZeJn0aA/wjGjeo7GBwAJ
For those who don't remember/don't want to click the link, the latest effort to
adapt Robert B. Parker's detective Spenser for the screen is a movie starring
Mark Wahlberg as the detective, and directed by Wahlberg's frequent
collaborator Peter Berg.
Official trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgKEoHNi3Uc
It's 'loosely based' (per Wikipedia) on the Ace Atkins' Spenser novel
Wonderland. As the film describes Spenser and Hawk trying to solve the murder
of two Boston cops, when the book was about a shady land development deal
putting the screws to the owner of Spenser's gym, I tend to agree.
David
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