We should have known — or at the very least guessed — that if there was a new trailer for The Bourne Legacy then there would also be a new poster. And there is (right, click for larger version), though we didn't discover it until a few minutes after we posted about the trailer. The poster's tagline: "There was never just one."
In the film — which does not feature Jason Bourne as a character — Jeremy Renner stars as Aaron Cross in an original story that introduces a new hero, whose life-or-death stakes have been triggered by the events of the first three films.
The Bourne Legacy opens in theaters August 3rd, 2012.
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
New Poster for The Bourne Legacy
First Trailer for The Bourne Legacy
A new trailer has been released for the Jason Bourne-less The Bourne Legacy; we've embedded it below. The film's tagline: "There was never just one."
Jeremy Renner stars as Aaron Cross in an original story that introduces us to a new hero whose life-or-death stakes have been triggered by the events of the first three films. For The Bourne Legacy, Renner joins fellow series newcomers Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Stacy Keach and Oscar Isaac, while franchise veterans Albert Finney, Joan Allen, David Strathairn and Scott Glenn reprise their roles.
Despite the film's title, this is not an adaptation of the fourth book in the series, also titled The Bourne Legacy, written by Eric Van Lustbader and based on a character created by Robert Ludlum.
The Bourne Legacy opens in US theaters August 3rd, 2012.
William Goldman to Adapt his Thriller Heat for Brian De Palma to Direct, Jason Statham to Star
Crime novelist William Goldman will adapt his own 1985 thriller Heat for Brian De Palma to direct. Jason Statham will star as Nick Escalante, an ex-Marine, who (in the book) chances on to a bizarre kidnapping threat and races into a night-time world of false identities, vicious grievances, and gruesome encounters.
The character was first played by Burt Reynolds in a 1986 adaptation of the book, from a screenplay also written by Goldman … though the plot of the film seems to differ substantially from the book. (We haven't seen it so cannot say for sure.) This second effort is being reported as a remake, so it's likely to be closer to the previous film than the book.
(Related article: The Hollywood Reporter.)
OMN Welcomes Mystery Author Lynda Fitzgerald
Omnimystery News is pleased to welcome Lynda Fitzgerald, author of the "LIVE" mysteries featuring investigative reporter Allie Granger. The second book in the series, LIVE Ammo (Crystal Dreams Publishing, April 2012 Trade Paperback), is published this April.
Today Lynda writes about her inspiration, a muse who wore a silk scarf ― or was it seaweed? And she's giving our readers an opportunity to win two of her books; details below.
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What makes a mystery writer? In my case, it was pure chance. Or that's how it seemed to me.
Until that August day about a dozen years or so ago, I considered myself a multi-genre author, which is a polite way to say I wrote whatever grabbed my attention at the moment. Women's fiction. Romantic suspense. Short stories and poetry. Articles.
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Lynda Fitzgerald
Back to that late summer day. I'm originally a Florida girl, and I'm often inspired by the ocean, which is probably why I spend every vacation in Brevard County, home of the Kennedy Space Center. My favorite part of the county is that thirty or forty mile stretch of A1A between Cape Canaveral and Sebastian Inlet, a narrow barrier island sandwiched between the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian River. In some spots, the island is so narrow that you can stand on the dunes above the beach and clearly see sailboats bobbing in the Indian River. Much of the area is a wildlife sanctuary. Heaven, except maybe during a hurricane.
That August day, I'd made the half-hour trek north to Cape Canaveral from Melbourne Beach, where I was staying for a week. It was mid-afternoon. The sun was scorching the back of my neck, but perched on one of the granite boulders form the Cape Canaveral jetty, I was mesmerized as I watched the water at my feet swirl around the rocks. Then I saw something floating toward me on the incoming waves. It had that dead, grayish look of a fish floating belly up, but as it grew nearer, I realized it was an arm ― attached to the body of a woman whose long blonde hair undulated just beneath the water's murky surface. A colorful scarf was tied around her throat. The same scarf that killed her?
No, it really was a fish with a bit of seaweed caught on one of its fins. Yeah, fanciful, but, that's the stuff of fiction. I sat there another half hour as the sun blistered my poor freckled skin, thinking about that woman. Who was she? Who killed her and why? This is how mystery authors amuse themselves.
I was in the midst of writing my third book then, If Truth Be Told, so I had to shelve the idea for a while. That doesn't mean, however, that I put it totally out of my mind. Many times, I found myself pondering the mystery woman's background, her friends and enemies.
Although I didn't begin LIVE Ringer until a few years later, the series was born that day. LIVE Ringer came out in 2010, and I love it, warts and all. Most readers who contacted me through my website complain about two things ― the book is too short and they read too late into the night because they couldn't put it down, complaints any author will listen to with glee. LIVE Ammo comes out this year, and LIVE in Person should be released late this fall or early 2013.
"LIVE" is one of those series that's a continuing story with the same characters, and that's as I think a series should be. A lot of authors might disagree with me, but I think the purpose of a series is to not just involve your characters in different situations, but to have them develop from what they experience. That's my take, at least.
When you first meet Allie Grainger, she's reeling from a nasty divorce (her husband had the face of Adonis and the morals of an alley cat) and the death of her favorite aunt, a unique character who left Allie her beach house in Cape Canaveral, the same house where Allie spent all her childhood summers, and a couple of million dollars. Oh, and a dog, a Lhasa Apso named Spook who's afraid of everyone and everything. Much like Allie herself. Neither has much self-esteem, but as life slaps them around, they each begin to grow and change. It's that growth that motivates me to write fiction.
As the first story developed, so did the other characters, until they took on lives and loves of their own. To me, their development is as important as Allie's own. Sheryl, her gorgeous childhood friend-turned-cop (think Sophia Loren meets Rambo), is a somewhat minor character in LIVE Ringer, but she plays a huge role in the subsequent books. Oh, the things I intend to do to Sheryl!
See, my fiction is character-driven, which means the characters drive the plot rather than being puppets at the mercy of the plot. The characters are everything to me, and they become real people in my life. How real? I was down in Cape Canaveral in October and half expected to run into Allie and Sheryl ― and I was disappointed when I didn't. Then there was the day when, not thinking, I told someone I had a friend with a Lhasa Apso. Sigh … What can you do? If you want those characters to be real to your reader, they first have to be real to you.
So that's me, the Accidental Mystery Writer. These days, I'm not multi-genre because everything I write is mystery. Heck, everything I think is mystery. Maybe I was a mystery writer all along and just "found" myself. Or … Okay. Enough speculation. I'll probably never know, and sometimes you have to agree to let a mystery remain just that.
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Lynda Fitzgerald is an author, teacher and speaker. Her debut novel, If Truth Be Told, was released in June, 2007. Of Words & Music, her second, came out in March of 2009, and her mystery series "LIVE" was launched in Spring 2010 with the release of LIVE Ringer. LIVE Ammo followed in 2012, with LIVE in Person due out in early spring 2013. Although she spent much of her life in central Florida, Lynda now lives in Snellville, GA, a small town just east of Atlanta, with her three rescue dogs. Check out her website FitzgeraldWrites.com for more about Lynda and her books, including excerpts from each and some beautiful pictures of the area where her books are set.
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About LIVE Ammo:
Sheriff Cord Arbutten's wife is dead, an apparent suicide, but his grown son claims she was murdered — by the Sheriff. Rand Arbutten, an attorney who hates his father, vows he's going to prove it. When it comes to light that she was killed with the Sheriff's old service revolver right in the middle of a nasty divorce, the Governor suggests that Cord think about stepping down. Suddenly, the Sheriff is faced with losing everything, possibly including his freedom.
Investigative reporter Allie Grainger gets involved when her best friend Sheryl, a Sheriff's Deputy, begs her to help. Allie barely knows the Sheriff, but she knows that Sheryl greatly respects him and that her deceased aunt, who worked for him for over twenty years, believed he was an honorable man. That's enough for her.
Repeated clashes with the Sheriff's son only make Allie more determined to discover the truth. Rand sets out to block Allie at every turn. When anger doesn't work, he turns on the charm, charm that gets to Allie a lot more than she's willing to admit.
Sidney Finch, a Sheriff's Deputy who idolizes the Sheriff, doesn't use charm to impede her investigation. He uses naked threats. Allie has to ask herself who he's trying to protect — the Sheriff or himself? She isn't sure how far Sidney will go to stop her, but since he has a hair-trigger temper and carries a gun, she absolutely doesn't want to find out.
Then Rand Arbutten agrees to work with Allie instead of against her. She isn't sure of his motives, but she'll take any help she can get. With her dead aunt whispering encouragement in her ear and Sheryl egging her on, Allie sets out to discover what really happened the day Jean Arbutten died.
For a chance to win a copy of both books in the "LIVE" series, LIVE Ringer and LIVE Ammo, visit Mystery Book Contests, click on the Lynda Fitzgerald: The LIVE Series contest link, enter your name, e-mail address, and this code (5098) for a chance to win! (One entry per person; contest ends 02/15/2012.)
Silent Kills by C. E. Lawrence is Today's Fifth Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Silent Kills by C. E. Lawrence as today's fifth free mystery ebook.
This title was listed as free as of the date and time of this post. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.
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Silent Kills by C. E. Lawrence
A Lee Campbell Mystery
Publisher: Pinnacle
This is the second thriller to feature NYPD profiler Lee Campbell.
About Silent Kills (from the publisher): The killer picks her up in a Manhattan night club. Another trendy victim of the latest downtown scene. Young. Fresh. Healthy. Perfect. The police find her body in a Bronx park. Pale as a ghost. Peaceful in death. Her life has been drained away. Slowly. Methodically. Brilliantly …
Lee Campbell has seen the gruesome handiwork of the most deranged criminal minds. But this is something new. Something unbelievably twisted. A blood-obsessed lunatic who chooses his victims with deadly, loving care — and forces Campbell to confront the demons in his own life. No matter who wins this game, there will be blood …
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Revenge by Michael Haskins is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Revenge by Michael Haskins as today's fourth free mystery ebook.
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Revenge by Michael Haskins
A Mick Murphy Mystery
Publisher: CreateSpace
This is the fourth mystery in this series featuring Liam Michael "Mad Mick" Murphy, a journalist in Key West.
About Revenge (from the publisher): Mick is walking across Harvard Yard when his name is called out. He turns and sees the woman of all his sexual fantasies. Under the spell of the pretty Filipina, Murphy is led into her search for the men that abused her brother while he was at Harvard. On the flight back to Los Angeles area, Murphy agrees to put her in contact with some of his old Harvard classmates and they soon begin showing up brutally murdered. His desire for his fantasy girls has him in jeopardy of losing close friends — including his on again/off again romantic interest. When he finally confronts his Filipina about the murders she admits her family is involved in the killings to revenge her brother's suicide. Before it's over Murphy's life is threatened and he learns that his fantasy is more of a nightmare. In the climatic ending Murphy faces the possibility of losing more than friends and a fantasy love.
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Sink or Swim by Stacy Juba is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Sink or Swim by Stacy Juba as today's third free mystery ebook.
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Sink or Swim by Stacy Juba
Publisher: Mainly Murder Press
About Sink or Swim (from the publisher): Ambitious personal trainer Cassidy Novak has gained national fame for starring on "Sink or Swim", nicknamed SOS, a hit game show set aboard a Tall Ship. She hopes the prize money will help to launch her dream of owning a chain of fitness centers. Not only does she lose the competition and have to walk the plank in the finale, after the game show ends, the terror begins.
Upon returning to her small Massachusetts hometown, Cassidy discovers she has attracted a stalker masterminding his own twisted game. She struggles to focus on her health club job and celebrity endorsement opportunities, but her stalker has other plans. As her former competitors get knocked off one-by-one, Cassidy refuses to play by his bizarre rules. She's also being shadowed by hunky photographer Zach Gallagher, who has been assigned to capture her personal moments for a spread in the local newspaper. She wants to trust Zach, but fears he may not be the nice guy that he seems.
With or without Zach's help, when the stalker forces a showdown by threatening her family, Cassidy must once again walk the plank — this time for her life.
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Gnosis by Tom Wallace is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Gnosis by Tom Wallace as today's second free mystery ebook.
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Gnosis by Tom Wallace
A Jack Dantzler Mystery
Publisher: Hydra Publications
This is the third mystery in this series to feature the Lexington (Kentucky) homicide detective.
About Gnosis (from the publisher): Dantzler has no clue why he has been summoned to the prison to meet with the Reverend Eli Whitehouse, a man convicted of committing a double murder twenty-nine years ago. He is stunned when Eli claims to be innocent and wants Dantzler to prove it. But Eli only gives Dantzler a single clue—look at the obituaries in the local paper for a specific two-week period.
Reluctantly, Dantzler agrees to look into the case. As he does, two more people are brutally murdered. And although Dantzler isn't aware of it, he has become a target for the killer. Dantzler goes back to Eli and pleads for another clue. All Eli says is, "think of Jesus's empty tomb." It will be this whispered utterance that unlocks the mystery and reveals the killer's identity.
But this isn't just any ordinary killer. This is a man with a dark and bloody past, a man with connections to the highest levels of organized crime. Dantzler is now on the trail of an ice-cold assassin, fully aware that one slip will mean instant death. Sometimes having too much knowledge can lead to deadly consequences.
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Painted Truth by Lise McClendon is Today's Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Painted Truth by Lise McClendon as today's free mystery ebook.
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Painted Truth by Lise McClendon
An Alix Thorssen Mystery
Publisher: Thalia Press
This is the second mystery in this series featuring Wyoming gallery owner Alix Thorssen.
About Painted Truth (from the publisher): Alix's partnership and gallery with sexy Paolo Segundo are at a crossroads. When another gallery on the town square burns, revealing the body of a famous artist, Alix is drawn into the investigation as an appraiser of the lost paintings. The investigation makes her confront her own contradictions as an art lover, turning everything she knows upside down. A second murder rocks the resort town. Alix must examine her ethics and indeed her way of life to find the truth, and justice. But not without a very high price.
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The Redbreast by Jo Nesbø is Today's Barnes&Noble Nook Daily Find
MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Redbreast by Jo Nesbø as today's Barnes&Noble Daily Find. The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Wednesday, February 08, 2012.
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The Redbreast by Jo Nesbø
A Harry Hole Mystery
Publisher: Harper
This is the third book in this series of Norwegian crime novels, though the first to be translated into English.
About The Redbreast (from the publisher): Detective Harry Hole embarrassed the force, and for his sins he’s been reassigned to mundane surveillance tasks. But while monitoring neo-Nazi activities in Oslo, Hole is inadvertently drawn into a mystery with deep roots in Norway’s dark past, when members of the government willingly collaborated with Nazi Germany. More than sixty years later, this black mark won’t wash away — and disgraced old soldiers who once survived a brutal Russian winter are being murdered, one by one. Now, with only a stained and guilty conscience to guide him, an angry, alcoholic, error-prone policeman must make his way safely past the traps and mirrors of a twisted criminal mind. For a conspiracy is taking rapid and hideous shape around Hole … and Norway’s darkest hour may be still to come.
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012
Casting News for Film Adaptation of A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré
The critical and commercial success of the recent film adaptation of John le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy has led to studio interest in developing other works by the author. Today we're learning that Philip Seymour Hoffman may star in an adaptation of the 2008 spy thriller A Most Wanted Man. Anton Corbijn (The American) will direct a screenplay by Andrew Bovell (Edge of Darkness).
Hoffman is expected to play the role of Günther Bachmann, a German intelligence officer watching over a "triangle of impossible loves". One of these is a half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat, who is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa.
Another is Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determined to save Issa from deportation. Soon her client's survival becomes more important to her than her own career. In pursuit of Issa's mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous Tommy Brue, the sixty-year-old scion of Brue Frères, a failing British bank based in Hamburg.
Production on the film will begin in Hamburg this September. Watch a trailer for the book from its UK publisher, narrated by the author, below.
(Related article: Variety.)
Review: Thread of Hope by Jeff Shelby
Read the full text of our review at Mysterious Reviews: Thread of Hope by Jeff Shelby.
Alex Cross to Open in US Theaters October 26th, 2012
Summit Entertainment has set the release date for Alex Cross — yes, it has been renamed from the previously announced I, Alex Cross, an old poster of which is shown (right), and which was confusing for reasons we have previously written about — for October 26th, 2012.
The film stars Tyler Perry as the titular character in a storyline adapted in part (we believe) from the 7th book in the series by James Patterson. Matthew Perry co-stars as the villain, a serial killer who murders Cross's wife.
We're still lamenting the casting of Tyler Perry in this role over Idris Elba, who was at one time associated with the film. Morgan Freeman once played the character in two film adaptations of Patterson's novels, Along Came a Spider (2001) and Kiss the Girls (1997).
Telemystery: Network Prime Time Crime Pilots Ordered To Date
Over the past few weeks we've posted on a somewhat irregular basis information about prime time crime — mystery, suspense, and thriller — pilots being ordered by the broadcast networks for the 2012/2013 television season … primarily choosing to feature those that interested us the most. Last weekend, we scoured the entertainment sites and came up with a more comprehensive list of pilots ordered to date, which we've listed below. We don't have any information on what percentage of pilots actually make it to series orders, though it's almost certainly less than half. The networks usually have their Fall schedules in place by May, so we should know more then about which of these pilots we may see as series later this year.
• 666 Park Avenue: A young couple is hired to manage a historic apartment building in Manhattan. Based the "Jane Boyle" series of supernatural novels by Gabriella Pierce. (ABC)
• Applebaum: A stay-at-home mom becomes a suburban private investigator. Based the "Mommy Track" series of mysteries by Ayelet Waldman. (CBS)
• The Asset: A spy thriller centered on a female CIA agent in New York City. (Fox)
• Elementary: A contemporary update of the Sherlock Holmes stories set in Manhattan. (CBS)
• Golden Boy: The meteoric rise of a cop, from officer to detective to police commissioner. (CBS)
• Gotham: A cop discovers an unseen (by normal humans) world that exists within New York City. (ABC)
• Guilty: A defense attorney, stripped of his license to practice law for unethical behavior, continues to solve cases. (Fox)
• The Last Resort: The crew of a nuclear submarine escape to a NATO outpost, where they declare themselves an independent nation. (ABC)
• Midnight Sun: An FBI agent investigates the mysterious disappearance of a commune in Alaska. Based on the Israeli crime thriller Timrot Ashan (Pillars of Smoke). (NBC)
• Penoza: The widow of an assassinated crime boss takes over his role in the syndicate to protect her family. (ABC)
• Quean: A "Dragon Tattoo"-type computer hacker teams up with an Oakland (California) police detective to solve crimes. (CBS)
• Trooper: A common-sense mother becomes a New York State trooper. (CBS)
• Untitled: The story of Ralph Lamb, a rodeo cowboy who became the sheriff of Clark County (which includes Las Vegas) in the 1960s. (CBS)
• Untitled: The teenaged daughter of a slain CIA teams up with an rogue operative, who serves as her mentor. (Fox)
• Untitled: An FBI agent finds himself involved with a cult of serial killers. (Fox)
• Widow Detective: A police detective becomes the surrogate husband, lover, and father to families of three partners lost in the line of duty. (CBS)
• Zero Hour: The editor of a skeptics magazine is pulled into one of the most compelling conspiracies in human history. (ABC)
Thief of Thieves, a new Crime Comic, Publishes its First Issue Wednesday, February 8th
Tomorrow, February 8th, Image Comics publishes the first in a new series of crime comics, Thief of Thieves (cover right; click for larger version).
Written by Robert Kirkman and Nick Spencer with art by Shawn Martinbrough, the first issue of the comic introduces Conrad Paulson, who lives a secret double life as master thief Redmond. There is nothing he can't steal, nothing he can't have … except for the life he left behind. Now, with a grown son he hardly knows, and an ex-wife he never stopped loving, Conrad must try to piece together what's left of his life, before the FBI finally catch up to him … but it appears they are the least of his worries.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly last month, Kirkman — who is probably best known for his "The Walking Dead" series of comics that have been adapted into the AMC television series — said of his new comic, "It's going to be very grounded in the real world. No zombies, no space aliens, no superheroes. It's just going to be real human characters doing somewhat horrible things to each other."
You can find a preview (three pages) of the first issue of Thief of Thieves on the Image Comics website.
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