Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain's 1995 culinary caper Bone in the Throat will be adapted for film.
Announced today in Cannes, Graham Henman will direct a screenplay he co-wrote with Mark Townsend. In contrast to the Manhattan setting of the book, the film will be set in London.
"With the exception of a few gems, Hollywood has been deficient in making a good restaurant film," said Henman. "With Bone in the Throat I am looking forward to doing just that and setting the film in London will allow me to take advantage of a city where the food scene is simply on fire. This film will capture my passionate love of food and the restaurant world in what I expect to be a riveting 'culinary noir.'"
Bone in the Throat is one of two mysteries written by Bourdain. (The other is Gone Bamboo, published in 1997.) The storyline follows up-and-coming chef Tommy Pagana, who settles for a less than glamorous stint at his uncle's restaurant in Manhattan's Little Italy when he unwittingly finds himself a partner in big-time crime. And when the mob decides to use the kitchen for a murder, nothing Tommy learned in cooking school has prepared him for what happens next. With the FBI on one side, and his eccentric wise guy superiors on the other, Tommy has to struggle to do right by his conscience, and to avoid getting killed in the meantime.
Friday, May 18, 2012
Anthony Bourdain's Culinary Caper Bone in the Throat to be Filmed
Final Episode of Sherlock Season 2 Airs this Sunday on PBS
The third and final episode of the second season of Sherlock airs this coming Sunday, May 20th, on PBS. The series has already been renewed for a third season.
In "The Reichenbach Fall" — inspired by "The Final Problem", the famous Arthur Conan Doyle story in which Sherlock Holmes "dies" — Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch) is lauded throughout Britain for his numerous triumphs of detection, the most famous of which was the recovery of Turner's masterpiece, "Falls of the Reichenbach." The media love him, his deerstalker hat, and his friend, "confirmed bachelor" John Watson (Martin Freeman). But wary of a tabloid culture that devours its own, John warns Sherlock to keep a low profile. Meanwhile, Sherlock's arch-nemesis, the criminal mastermind Moriarty (Andrew Scott), emerges from the shadows and into the spotlight with a menacing vow and a cat-and-mouse game conceived entirely for the object of his obsession. While John worries about a pending tabloid exposé of his friend and Moriarty's promised final problem, Sherlock continues to assist Lestrade (Rupert Graves) solving crimes. But eventually even Sherlock must turn his absolute attention to the unhinged, evil genius' threat, "I owe you a fall."
If you missed the first two episodes, they are available to view online at PBS.org. (Episode 1 is available through June 5th, episode 2 through June 12th, and presumably starting this coming Monday episode 3 through June 19th.)
Watch a scene from the final episode below.
The 8th Jesse Stone Movie Airs May 20th on CBS
This Sunday, May 20th, Benefit of the Doubt, the 8th — and presumably final — Jesse Stone made-for-television movie will air on CBS at 9 PM (ET/PT).
Starring Tom Selleck as Jesse Stone, a character created by Robert B. Parker, the storyline follows the ex-Paradise (Massachusetts) police chief struggling to get his job back. Separately, he is forced to rely on his cop intuition to sort through a maze of misleading clues and hidden meanings as he attempts to solve a shocking and horrifying mob-related double homicide.
Other actors reprising their roles are Kathy Baker as Rose Gammon, Kohl Sudduth as Luther "Suitcase" Simpson, Stephen McHattie as State Homicide Commander Healy, William Devane as Dr. Dix, William Sadler as Gino Fish, Gloria Reuben as Thelma Gleffey and Saul Rubinek as Hasty Hathaway. Guest stars for this film are Robert Carradine and Jeff Geddis.
Selleck, who co-executive produced and co-authored the screenplay with crime novelist Michael Brandman, has repeatedly said he wants to continue playing the character but thinks Benefit of the Doubt will the last in the series for CBS.
Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (120518)
Here is today's list of the top bestselling free Kindle mysteries, suspense novels and thrillers.
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Time Riders by Alex Scarrow is This Week's Amazon Deal Vote Winner
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Time Riders by Alex Scarrow as this week's Amazon Deal Vote Winner. The deal price of $1.99 is valid this weekend only.
Visit the deal page to see this week's winners in all four categories — Instant Video, MP3 Album, Kindle Book, and Game Download — and to vole for next week's winner.
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Time Riders by Alex Scarrow
Publisher: Walker
About Time Riders (from the publisher): Maddy should have died in a plane crash. Liam should have died at sea when the Titanic sank. Sal should have died in a tragic fire. But a mysterious man whisked them away to safety.
Maddy, Liam, and Sal quickly learn that time travel is no longer just a hope for the future; it is a dangerous reality. And they weren't just rescued from their terrible fates … they were recruited for the agency of TimeRiders created to protect the world from those seeking to alter the course of history for personal gain. By reliving the highly documented events in New York City on 9/11, they can closely monitor history for any deviations-large or small. When just such a change is detected, they are alerted that a threat is at hand unleashing the evil of the Nazis to wreak havoc with Earth's present and future. Can Maddy, Liam, and Sal fulfill their destinies as keepers of time to save the world from utter destruction?
An exhilarating adventure that shifts readers back in time to Nazi Germany and then forward into an ever-changing present.
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New Trailer for Literary Thriller The Words
CBS Films has uploaded a new trailer for its literary thriller The Words (embedded below).
Young writer Rory Jansen (Bradley Cooper) finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch — he didn't write it. As the past comes back to haunt him and his literary star continues to rise, Jansen is forced to confront the steep price that must be paid for stealing another man's work, and for placing ambition and success above life's most fundamental three words.
Also starring Jeremy Irons, Dennis Quaid, Olivia Wilde and Zoë Saldana, The Words is directed by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal from their own screenplay. It opens in theaters September 21st, 2012.
Baby Shark by Robert Fate is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Baby Shark by Robert Fate as today's third free mystery ebook.
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Baby Shark by Robert Fate
A "Baby Shark" Mystery
Publisher: Capital Crime Press
This first in a series introduces PI Kristin "Baby Shark" Van Dijk.
About Baby Shark (from the publisher): In a roadside pool hall out west of Abilene, Kristin Van Dijk, 17, is forced by four thugs to watch the murder of three men, including her pool hustler father. She’s assaulted and beaten and left for dead as Henry Chin, a Chinese immigrant whose grown son was one of those murdered, saves her and secretly helps her recover. Because the local police show no interest in solving the pool hall crime, Henry hires a private investigator more set on justice than law to start a search for the nomadic killers. Then Henry hires two vets to teach Kristin how to protect herself. She develops into one tough package of trouble as she also perfects her pool. At eighteen, she looks for the thugs as she hustles pool in west Texas and earns the nickname Baby Shark. Revenge is difficult, but satisfying.
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Armed and Fabulous by Camilla Chafer is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Armed and Fabulous by Camilla Chafer as today's second free mystery ebook.
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Armed and Fabulous by Camilla Chafer
A Lexi Graves Mystery
Publisher: Audacious Press
This first in a new series is by the author of the Stella Mayweather paranormal mysteries.
About Armed and Fabulous (from the publisher): All Lexi wants to do is get through the day at her boring temp job with Green Hand Insurance. That’s until she discovers the vice president, Martin Dean, in a pool of blood and herself at the center of an investigation into insurance fraud.
Millions of dollars are missing, the chief suspect is dead and her mysterious, sexy, new boss is not what he seems.
Recruited by the joint task force working on the case, all Lexi has to do is work out who killed Dean and where the missing millions are. That’s easier said than done when her sister insists upon the baby shower to end all baby showers, her wise-ass cop family just wants to keep her safe, someone keeps leaving her creepy gifts, and all the clues point to a seedy sex club on the wrong side of town.
As the bodies start to pile up, Lexi is on a race against time to find the killer and the money, before she’s the next one in the murderer’s sights.
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The Trinity by David LaBounty is Today's Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Trinity by David LaBounty as today's free mystery ebook.
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The Trinity by David LaBounty
Publisher: Silverthought Press
About The Trinity (from the publisher): Chris Fairbanks is a lonely young man who joins the Navy in search of travel, adventure, and women — but mostly to escape his lower middle-class existence, his loveless family, and to find some meaning in his otherwise meaningless life. The Navy sends Chris to a small communications base in Scotland, where he is befriended by a disillusioned Catholic chaplain, Father Alexander Crowley. Crowley joined the Navy for his own sinister reasons — including his desire to incite a race war that will consume the world. Blinded by his search for friendship and acceptance, Chris reluctantly finds himself drawn into Crowley's white supremacist group and his alcohol-fueled plans for genocide. After realizing the depths of Crowley's madness and struggling with his own complicity in this reign of terror, Chris appeals to his chain of command. Met with indifference and disbelief, he takes matters into his own hands, leading The Trinity to an apocalyptic and fiery end.
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Mystery Bestsellers for the Week Ending May 18, 2012
A list of the top 15 mystery hardcover bestsellers for the week ending May 18th, 2012 has been posted by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books.
The 12th "Southern Vampire" mystery Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris retains the top spot on the list this week.
Two new titles debut.
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Entering the list at number 8 is the new Lucas Davenport mystery, Stolen Prey by John Sandford.
Lucas Davenport has seen many terrible murder scenes. This is one of the worst. In the small Minnesota town of Deephaven, an entire family has been killed — husband, wife, two daughters, dogs.
There's something about the scene that pokes at Lucas's cop instincts — it looks an awful lot like the kind of scorched-earth retribution he's seen in drug killings sometimes. But this is a seriously upscale town, and the husband was an executive vice president at a big bank. It just doesn't seem to fit.
Until it does. And where it leads Lucas will take him into the darkest nightmare of his life.
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Two places lower at number 10 is the new stand-along thriller, The Columbus Affair by Steve Berry.
Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist Tom Sagan has written hard-hitting articles from hot spots around the world. But when a controversial report from a war-torn region is exposed as a fraud, his professional reputation crashes and burns. Now he lives in virtual exile — haunted by bad decisions and the shocking truth he can never prove: that his downfall was a deliberate act of sabotage by an unknown enemy. But before Sagan can end his torment with the squeeze of a trigger, fate intervenes in the form of an enigmatic stranger with a request that cannot be ignored.
Zachariah Simon has the look of a scholar, the soul of a scoundrel, and the zeal of a fanatic. He also has Tom Sagan's estranged daughter at his mercy. Simon desperately wants something only Sagan can supply: the key to a 500-year-old mystery, a treasure with explosive political significance in the modern world. For both Simon and Sagan the stakes are high, the goal intensely personal, the consequences of opposing either man potentially catastrophic. On a perilous quest from Florida to Vienna to Prague and finally to the mountains of Jamaica, the two men square off in a dangerous game. Along the way, both of their lives will be altered — and everything we know about Christopher Columbus will change.
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Blade Runner Screenwriter May Write Sequel
We've known for almost a year now that Blade Runner director Ridley Scott was set to direct a sequel to the film. But little more has been announced about the project since then.
Until now.
In a press release today, Alcon Entertainment — which holds the film rights to any prequel or sequel — announced that Blade Runner screenwriter Hampton Fancher was "in talks" to develop an idea for an original screenplay for the film. Sounds a little less than set in stone to us.
The Alcon press release — you can find a copy on the Collider website — makes it sound as if the sequel news is new news, but that was announced last year by Ridley Scott himself.
The original film was based on the Philip K. Dick short story "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" but little is known about the expected storyline of the sequel other than it "will take place some years after the first film concluded." That's where Hampton Fancher comes in, we guess. What is known is that Harrison Ford will not be reprising his role as Rick Deckard.
A&E Cancels Breakout Kings
A&E has canceled Breakout Kings.
We can't say we're disappointed. We were huge fans of Nick Santora and Matt Olmstead's series Prison Break but this follow-up series from them never resonated with us. The concept was fine; we think it was simply poor — or maybe uninspired — casting. Regardless, we tried it for a couple of first season episodes and then abandoned it.
USA Network Announces Prime Time Crime Series in Development
Earlier this week TNT announced its slate of series in development and today USA has done the same. As per usual, we're focusing on those that have a mystery-, suspense- or thriller-theme to them.
Bang Bang is based on the French television series Doom Doom and is centered on an unlikely partnership that is formed when veteran hitman Danny is saved by rival novice hired gun Marco, while executing a target. This dynamic duo pair up to execute contracts … if they don't kill each other first.
San Francisco's hottest new restaurant, Tour, an exciting fusion of world cuisines that's drawing crowds across all demographics in the Bay Area is the setting for Rare. Part of its allure may be the chef, a mysterious ex-special forces captain who's good with a knife both inside … and outside the kitchen. Even if he tries to resist his old violent life, he will be unlikely to keep it entirely outside his new establishment.
In Fallen, San Diego homicide detective Robbie Brownlaw, a gruff, macho cop known for his "act first, ask questions later' approach, develops the rare condition of synesthesia during recovery from a head trauma accident and suddenly finds himself seeing "emotions". His partner doesn't quite understand this "touchy-feely" approach to solving crimes, but there's no doubt that this new insight is helping clear cases. Based on a character created by crime novelist T. Jefferson Parker in his "California Crime" thriller The Fallen.
Book Trailer for The 500 by Matthew Quirk (via EW.com)
Matthew Quirk's debut thriller The 500 will be published next month — the film adaptation rights have already been sold — and Entertainment Weekly has a first look at the book's trailer.
A year ago, fresh out of Harvard Law School, Mike Ford landed his dream job at the Davies Group, Washington's most powerful consulting firm. Now, he's staring down the barrel of a gun, pursued by two of the world's most dangerous men. To get out, he'll have to do all the things he thought he'd never do again: lie, cheat, steal — and this time, maybe even kill.
Mike grew up in a world of small-stakes con men, learning lessons at his father's knee. His hard-won success in college and law school was his ticket out. As the Davies Group's rising star, he rubs shoulders with "The 500," the elite men and women who really run Washington — and the world. But peddling influence, he soon learns, is familiar work: even with a pedigree, a con is still a con.
Liam Neeson to Star as Matthew Scudder in Film Adaptation of A Walk Among the Tombstones by Lawrence Block
Here's some interesting news out of Cannes: Liam Neeson will star in a film adaptation of Lawrence Block's tenth Matthew Scudder mystery, A Walk Among the Tombstones, with a screenplay to be written and directed by Scott Frank.
Formerly a cop with the NYPD, now an unlicensed private eye and a recovering alcoholic haunted by past mistakes, Matt Scudder is hired to find the kidnapped wife of a drug dealer. He operates just outside the law where the police don't go to track down the kidnappers, who he discovers have been involved in multiple kidnappings and brutal murders.
Principal photography is expected to begin on location in New York City in February 2013.
