{"id":24953,"date":"2021-01-02T08:29:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T12:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=24953"},"modified":"2021-05-22T09:42:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T13:42:47","slug":"i-the-jury-drew-struzan-and-armand-assante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=24953","title":{"rendered":"“I, the Jury” – Drew Struzan and Armand Assante"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The poster above for I, the Jury<\/em> is my favorite Drew Struzan poster.\u00a0 That shows how much I love that print since Struzan also did amazing posters for First Blood<\/em>, the Indiana Jones<\/em> films, the Back to the Future <\/em>series, the Star Wars <\/em>films… well, you get the idea.<\/p>\n

I guess it’s fitting that Struzan’s I, the Jury<\/em> poster isn’t as highly rated with fans, since the movie is also underrated.\u00a0 I thought Armand Assante was excellent as Spillane’s Mike Hammer.\u00a0 Barbara Carrera fit the bill as the sexy fem fatale. Laurene Landon was surprisingly good as Velda.\u00a0 Geoffrey Lewis and Paul Sorvino are welcome additions to any film.\u00a0 Perhaps I, the Jury<\/em> under-performed because Mike Hammer was updated to current times rather than the 1947 period in which it was written.\u00a0 Larry Cohen the screenwriter, was also set t0 direct, but was let go after just one week of filming.\u00a0 Reportedly he fell behind a day of shooting and went over budget by $100,000.00 in that first week.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Initially planned as a trilogy, Cohen was unable to get the other two films made.\u00a0 Which is a shame.\u00a0 At least we will always have one good film with Assante as Mike Hammer… and the very cool Drew Struzan\u00a0 I, the Jury<\/em> poster.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The poster above for I, the Jury is my favorite Drew Struzan poster.\u00a0 That shows how much I love that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,52,17,51,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24953","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=24953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24954,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24953\/revisions\/24954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}