{"id":679,"date":"2002-04-06T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-06T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=679"},"modified":"2017-12-09T11:15:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T15:15:08","slug":"killer-inside-coming-to-big-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=679","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Killer Inside Me&#8221; Coming But Who to Play Lou Ford?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2002\/z040602killerinsidemecover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Earlier this week <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">Variety<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> reported that <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">Dominic Sena<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> (<\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">&#8220;Gone in 60 Seconds&#8221;<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">) will direct the 1952 pulp fiction classic <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">&#8220;The Killer Inside Me&#8221;<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> by <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">Jim Thompson<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">. While I didn&#8217;t care much for <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">&#8220;Gone in 60 Seconds&#8221;<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> because of the story, I am fairly excited about the prospects for<\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\"> &#8220;The Killer Inside Me.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">First of all, it&#8217;s an excellent book, considered by many to be <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">Jim Thompson<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">&#8216;s best. <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">Stanley Kubrick<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> called it &#8220;the most chilling and believeable first-person story of a criminally warped mind that I have ever encountered.&#8221; I agree. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">But who to play the main character, Lou Ford, a sheriff&#8217;s deputy with a psychopathic side? My vote would be for someone totally unexpected&#8230; someone like <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">Sylvester Stallone<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">! Fans have been wanting to see him play a bad guy&#8230; well, this could be the role. Whoever is chosen should be playing totally against character&#8230; someone that everyone would NEVER suspect is a psychopathic murderer&#8230; if not <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">Sly<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> then maybe <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">Harrison Ford<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">? At any rate&#8230; <\/span><a style=\"font-family: arial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0679733973\/craizabls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">check out the book<\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">! <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week Variety reported that Dominic Sena (&#8220;Gone in 60 Seconds&#8221;) will direct the 1952 pulp fiction classic &#8220;The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":[52,17,51,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","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=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19392,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/19392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}