ANYONE HOPING FOR A DYLAN HUNTER MOVIE should know that slim odds of that ever happening are now much, much slimmer. Bradley American Sniper Cooper was inked last August to star in a forthcoming Warner Brothers movie franchise deal to bring Mack Bolan/The Executioner to the big screen. In case you dont know, The Executioner pits a dark-haired, lone-wolf-type, former special ops guy waging a one-man vigilante war against bad guys and terrorists. The countless novels in the pulp paperback series, originally penned by the late Don Pendleton, have sold over 200 million copies. With the suddenly red-hot Cooper already slated to star, IMHO if this project goes forward it will suck the air out of just about any other lone-wolf vigilante movie project. Not that Dylan ever had much of a shot in Hollywood to begin with: Given how that citys reigning leftist cadre have raged against the philosophically tame American Sniper, merely for showing an American soldier as heroic, you can only imagine what the reaction would be to the explicitly Politically Incorrect themes in MY books! Ive known that all along, and so Ive regarded the odds for a Dylan Hunter film as vanishingly small. This new Cooper film project reduces those odds to the microscopic level, I think -- unless somebody in Hollywood would want to cash in on the assured success of The Executioner series to do a copycat sort of film. Which, of course, I wouldnt want. Besides, I can control Dylan on the printed page. In fact, Im the only one who can. I am adamantly opposed to allowing anyone to do anything to alter or undercut his character in films or TV shows, which -- given Hollywood values -- would be virtually inevitable. Unless some small independent company, consisting of diehard Dylan fans, were to take on such a project, Id have to be starving to death to sell the film rights. Anyhow, I loved the early Mack Bolan Executioner thrillers in the 1970s. He was the great-granddaddy of fictional lone-wolf urban vigilantes, and I suspect that more than a little of him subconsciously rubbed off on my characterization of Dylan Hunter. Im delighted that, after so many false starts with so many big-name actors, hes finally getting his shot(s) on the Big Screen with Bradley Cooper. Live large, Mack. executionerseries/film-news.html
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:56:46 +0000
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