After all that talk about how
Darren Aronofsky's
Black Swan is similar to the cinema of
Brian De Palma, it turns out that De Palma's name was actually included in the
Black Swan press kit. Under the kit's bio for screenwriter
John McLaughlin, one of McLaughlin's latest film projects is listed as "a movie based on the
Donald Westlake underworld character
Parker with Brian De Palma attached to direct." I checked with De Palma, who confirmed the project. The bio also mentions a McLaughlin project called
The Man Who Killed Houdini, and someone at
TampaBay.com yesterday must have misread McLaughlin's bio, because they mistakenly stated that De Palma was attached to the Houdini project (De Palma said he is not involved).
In any case, the Parker project sounds rather promising. Parker is a character created by Westlake under the pseudonym
Richard Stark. The first novel to feature the character,
The Hunter, was published in 1962, and subsequently adapted into two films:
John Boorman's masterful
Point Blank (1967), which starred
Lee Marvin (as Parker) and
Angie Dickinson; and
Payback (1999), starring
Mel Gibson (as Parker) and
Gary Sinise.
Robert Duvall also played a character based on Parker in
John Flynn's
The Outfit (1973), as did
Jim Brown in
Gordon Flemyng's
The Split (1968).
McLaughlin has also adapted Stephen Rebello's book, Alfred Hitchcock And The Making Of Psycho, into a screenplay that is going into production this year under the direction of Ryan Murphy, and starring Anthony Hopkins as Hitchock.
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