The left-leaning Academy is likely to be receptive to the movie's skepticism about the government's truthfulness, which many will likely relate to the current administration's role in Iraq.
It wouldn't be the first time Oscar voters were tickled by a political twist in one of Eastwood's movies--2004's "Million Dollar Baby," with what many took as a stealth pro-choice message, won the Best Picture Oscar.
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Writerfella here --
Honestly, if Adam Beach did not exist, Native actors would have had to 'invent' him.
When the Hillerman 'Jim Chee' mysteries were to be done as films, the first ones had Lou Diamond Phillips as Jim Chee. They mostly flopped. But the PBS versions of the later films had Adam Beach cast as Jim Chee and Wes Studi cast as Joe Leaphorn. Those films got PBS the most respectable ratings they had had in years. The two actors had such a great chemistry working opposite one another that many viewers expressed that they were seeing the novels being fleshed to their reader's satisfaction.
Which means, that at whatever time that the two actors still are in the public eye, they damn well had better work together again!
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Russ Bates
'writerfella'
As far as I know, The Dark Wind was the only Hillerman novel to make it to the screen before the PBS movies. And I liked it better than the PBS movies, even though it starred Fred Ward and Lou Diamond Phillips.
Writerfella here --
Actually, there was another project that already was underway when the decision was made not to release THE DARK WIND. I remember press releases and even possible casting calls. But the lukewarm reception of the first effort ended the second one completely. It might have been an early screenplay based on SKINWALKERS but so far, I can't track anything down.
The film rights to Hillerman's THE SHAPE SHIFTER already have been sold.
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Russ Bates
'writerfella'
Are there any other modern mystery writers with as much movie/TV optioning interest as Hillerman? I can't think of any right now.
Writerfella here --
Right off the top of the head, writerfella can answer:
Stephen King as Richard Bachman
John Grisham
George R.R. Martin, &
Dean Koontz.
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Russ Bates
I don't think I'm defining the genre too narrowly, but I was thinking of the "murder mystery" classification.
King is mainly horror/fantasy/sci fi. I can think of one mystery book he did (more of a detective novel), but I am not aware of it being optioned for anything.
Grisham is the "king" (no pun intended) of the lawyer novel/legal thriller.
Martin? He's done superhero shared universe, grand epic fantasy, and vampires on riverboats. Perhaps he is so prolific that there are mysteries he has written that I have not heard of.
Koontz is the one author you named that I have not read a lot of books from, so I don't know about him.
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