Sentences with phrase «by crime novelist»

Directed by Colin Trevorrow and written by the crime novelist and comic - book writer Gregg Hurwitz, the movie follows Susan Carpenter (Watts), a small - town waitress and single mother who endures a bizarre crucible of suffering set in motion by her elder son, an 11 - year - old prodigy named Henry (Jaeden Lieberher).

Not exact matches

Based on the character created by legendary crime novelist Elmore Leonard, and raising the stakes of the electrifying debut season, Raylan faces his most daunting adversaries yet.

Meanwhile, the film is based on the first Mickey Haller novel by ace crime novelist Michael Connelly, who literally reinvented the L.A. noir novel with his realistic procedural series starring iconoclastic police detective Harry Bosch and now his Lincoln Lawyer series featuring attorney - at - law Michael «Mick» Haller.

The story (adapted by Alexander Jacobs, David Newhouse, Rafe Newhouse) is based on «The Hunter» from acclaimed crime novelist Donald Westlake (as Richard Stark).

Based on the works of crime novelist Elmore Leonard and developed for television by showrunner Graham Yost, the FX drama series Justified is wrapping up its fifth season and looking ahead to its sixth and final season.

The film which was written by master crime novelist James Ellroy will star Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster, Ice Cube, Steve Buscemi, Anne Heche, Cynthia Nixon, Sigourney Weaver, and Robin Wright.

Jarrod Emerson's tribute to Richard Attenborough: PART 1: BRIGHTON ROCK - 1947 What do you get when the crime classic, Brighton Rock, (by acclaimed novelist Graham Greene) falls into the hands of pioneering British filmmaker John Boulting?

His latest effort reunites him with actors Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster for this gritty police drama co-written by popular crime novelist James Elroy.

The adaptation of Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbø «s novel by Swedish director Tomas Alfredson (of Let the Right One In and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy fame) promises to be more than just a typical murder mystery set in a desolate snowscape, which is beginning to become a startlingly popular genre lately.

The script, co-written by Wong with American crime novelist Lawrence Block, is more a suggestion of stories than actual drama, and it almost unravels in the tinny, emotionally tone deaf (and fortunately brief) tale of a brassy baby - faced gambler, that Portman clomps through with little conviction.

The Handmaiden has had a curious journey to screen, starting life as Fingersmith, a 2002 historical novel of Victorian mores and crime, by Welsh novelist Sarah Waters.

Adapted by novelist and screenwriter Richard Price («Clockers,» «Sea of Love»), «Child 44» revolves, nearly obsessively, around the defining Catch - 22 of life in the Soviet Communist era: Crimes like murder, we're repeatedly told, are diseases of capitalism and Western decadence, and therefore can not take place in the worker's paradise Stalin has made.

Such is the case with two new Ripper - themed books by celebrated historical crime novelists Stephen Hunter (Hot Springs) and Alex Grecian (The Yard).

Of the remaining 9, though, there is only one first novelist, Alice LaPlante, who garners the treasured Mystery Showcase daily double by landing on both our top 10 and best crime - fiction debut lists.

This compendium of «crimes against the English language» highlights several felonies committed by Irish writer Amanda McKittrick Ros — often considered one of the worst published novelists of all time — but right alongside hers are the missteps of Jane Austen, Jonathan Franzen and other literary greats.

Many crime novelists are known best by their pseudonyms — Bruce Alexander, Ellis Peters, Edward Marston, Ross Macdonald and Ellery Queen, to name just a few.

Another must read Hellblazer arc was created by celebrated crime novelist, Ian Rankin, for Vertigo's crime imprint called Dark Entries in 2009.

The panel will be chaired by the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah and consists of: crime writer Val McDermid; cultural critic Leo Robson; feminist writer and critic Jacqueline Rose; and artist and graphic novelist Leanne Shapton.

Crime novelist JA Konrath has been very public about how much more money he earns on his self - published Kindle novels than he does on those released by his publishers, and Stephen R. Covey (the Seven Habits guy) has recently announced his plans to self - publish in 2010.

A crime novelist imprisoned in a desert cabin by a villain more sinister than any he has ever written...

We should also mention that one of the attractions include a daily bonfire kindled by the works of the crime novelist Jeffrey Archer.