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Michael Fleming
Mon., Jan. 14,
2002
WESTLAKE
GOES SERIES ROUTE: While he awaits a studio for his
"Bad News," Donald Westlake received good news for his
most famous fictional creation, the character of
Parker, the unredeemable but principled villain played
by Mel Gibson in "Payback" and Lee Marvin portrayed in
"Point Blank." The Parker novel series, which Westlake
wrote under the pen name Richard Stark, has been
acquired for series treatment by FX net entertainment
prexy Kevin Reilly, who commissioned a pilot script.
The project was set up at Fireworks by producers Dylan
Sellers and Tom Lassally, with a script being written
by Alexander Ignon ("Ransom"), who adapted the
Westlake novel "The Green Eagle Score" for Sellers and
Warner Bros., with Steve Norrington attached to
direct. Westlake, whose other novel adaptations
include "The Grifters" and "The Hot Rock," liked
Ignons' work and blessed the series. It'll be an
original caper for Parker, and will be written in the
vein of "The Sopranos" and "Heat," with the idea that
a massive heist will be perpetrated over the course of
a season, the setup building over episodes until the
actual crime is perpetrated.
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