{"id":21633,"date":"2019-02-09T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=21633"},"modified":"2019-02-08T19:55:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T23:55:56","slug":"donald-westlakes-ventures-in-movies-and-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=21633","title":{"rendered":"Donald Westlake&#8217;s Ventures in Movies and TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2019\/z020919mindofdonaldwestlake.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"383\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crimereads.com\/what-i-learned-from-donald-e-westlakes-letters\/\">The Mind of Donald E. Westlake<\/a> by Levi Stahl takes a look at Westlake&#8217;s ventures into screenwriting and the adaptations of his work for movies and television. It&#8217;s worth a look.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Did you know Westlake wrote a screenplay adapting Hammet&#8217;s Red Harvest? Sadly it was never made.\u00a0 Neither was Westlake&#8217;s James Bond screenplay.\u00a0 It&#8217;s no secret that Lee Marvin played Westlake&#8217;s most popular character Parker on the big screen, but did you know&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">&#8230;that\u00a0Between <em>Point Blank<\/em>, in 1967, and <em>Parker<\/em>, in 2013, Parker (usually under other names) was played by Lee Marvin, Robert Duvall, Jim Brown, Mel Gibson, Jason Statham, and, strangest of all, Anna Karina&#8230; <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">I didn&#8217;t.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mind of Donald E. Westlake by Levi Stahl takes a look at Westlake&#8217;s ventures into screenwriting and the adaptations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,52,17,51,54,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-tv"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21638,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21633\/revisions\/21638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}