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Enda80
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
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 Posted - 10/13/2009 : 6:21:31 PM
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I had read that Travis McGee may serve as the basis for another adaptation. Meanwhile, F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack, an admitted homage to Travis McGee, but created roughly twenty years later (in fact, as I recall, in the same year that the last John D. MacDonald Travis McGee novel came out) and whose adventures, with rare exception, always involve the paranormal.
http://www.Jabootu.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3978&SearchTerms=lawrence,sanders,
I do not envy them the task of bringing Travis McGee to film. After all, no detective story author in recent years (I would take the 1970's on as "recent years") has had a comprehensive novel to film adaptation series comparable to J.K. Rowling and her Harry Potter films.
That I picked out J.K. Rowling as the paragon of literature to film franchises of recent years may indicate to some people that films have turned increasingly juvenile since Star Wars (which Lucas made as an unabashed Flash Gordon homage). Despite the homage and respect noir films receive, private eye films never, to my knowledge, produce Star Wars level blockbuster films.
Repairman Jack, though, since his adventures involve the paranormal, may have the advantage of not just throwing out another hardman good with his fists who takes on the mob. After all, most of the people who specialized in that in the 1980's have ended up consigned to direct to DVD, and successors have had to go for PG-13 ratings to get their films in theaters.
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