Your favorite movie, ever, is about to be made.
According to Deadline, Michael Chiklis is set to face-off against Jason Statham in Taylor Hackford’s Parker. Parker is yet another adaptation of Donald E. Westlake’s cold and vicious protagonist … but this time, he’ll finally keep his damn name! (I think. That could change, I suppose.)
Anyone who has to go up against Parker (who is no angel) has to be one nasty piece of work himself, and unless you can get Daniel Day-Lewis in full Bill the Butcher mode, Chiklis is a solid pick.
Jennifer Lopez is currently in talks to play the female lead. Chances we’ll get Out of Sight Lopez, anyone? Anyone?
Lopez aside, it’s still Chiklis versus Statham. The light bouncing off their badass craniums in the penultimate fight scene could blind us, but if it was the last thing we saw, I think we’d all go away happy.
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For this movie, I hope we get something closer to U-Turn Lopez.
“Parker is yet another adaptation of Donald E. Westlake’s cold and vicious protagonist”
and the others are? was Payback one?
Kubrick Fan, Yes, Payback was an adaption of a…Parker novel!
Point Blank with Lee Marvin, The Split with Jim Brown, The Outfit with Robert Duvall, and Full Contact with Chow Yun-Fat.
And, of course, Payback.
Is there a reason we aren’t starting thread for new articles anymore?
It’s supposed to do it automatically but appears to be doing so very selectively…I’ll start a thread for this one. Hopefully it will be repaired.
I figured it was something along those lines.
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