Timothy Olyphant is rumored to return as Justified's modern cowboy Raylan Givens in a new FX series that will also be based on an Elmore Leonard novel.
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We already have one great adaptation of Get Shorty, but we're getting another one this summer from Epix starring Chris O'Dowd. Watch the Get Shorty trailer.
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15 years after starting his debut novel, filmmaker Scott Frank finally finished his Los Angeles-set crime story and we sat down to talk to him about it.
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Next summer, EPIX will air 10 episodes of Get Shorty, another adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel. Chris O'Dowd will star in the Get Shorty TV series.
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Barry Sonnenfeld's film, Get Shorty, based on Elmore Leonard's novel, is now being adapted for the small screen. Learn more about the Get Shorty TV series.
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Get the latest on the possible Quentin Tarantino Forty Lashes Less One project. Tarantino wants to make a TV miniseries out of the book by Elmore Leonard.
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A Gunsights TV show is in the works at AMC, from Justified producer Chris Provenzano. Like Justified, Gunsights is based on the work of Elmore Leonard.
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In the Life of Crime trailer you'll meet a housewife (Jennifer Aniston) who finds herself in a tight spot after being kidnapped.
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We constantly bash Hollywood for their lack of originality, but one good thing they did when borrowing ideas was use the works of Elmore Leonard. Leonard wrote the original books for what would become Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Jackie Brown, the show Justified and many others. His brand of hard-boiled, but silky smooth dialogue with unforgettable characters…
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We've been calling Switch a prequel to Jackie Brown, because both films are based on novels by Elmore Leonard, and Switch will feature the characters Louis Gara and Ordell Robbie, originally played by Robert De Niro and Jackson in Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown. John Hawkes and Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) play the two guys…
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Ty Burrell has had a pretty great career trajectory: he went from being a bit player in Black Hawk Down to (very effectively) acting like a total dickhead in Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead remake to being a core part of one of the most praised shows on TV, Modern Family. Now the recent…
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John Hawkes as a young Robert De Niro and Mos Def as a young Samuel L. Jackson? Sounds fantastic and it's actually happening. Hawkes and yasiin bey (Mos Def's new name) will star in Switch, based on an Elmore Leonard novel, written and directed by Dan Schechter. They'll play Louis Gara and Ordell Robbie respectively, characters made famous…
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We had a couple of days where mid-level casting for a lot of projects was going crazy. Maybe there was something in the air; maybe casting directors and agents just all got together and had a field day. It's been a bit slower today, but still there are a couple of items to catch up…
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If writer/director Charles Matthau was looking to get everyone's attention for his upcoming adaptation of the Elmore Leonard novel Freaky Deaky, mission accomplished. A few months back, he got a good start by casting William H. Macy in a major role and today he upped the ante by getting Matt Dillon, Brendan Fraser and Craig…
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What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 32 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If…
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The books of Elmore Leonard have been source material for a wide variety of films good and bad, from Out of Sight, Rum Punch (aka Jackie Brown) and Get Shorty, to losers like Be Cool, Killshot and The Big Bounce. Now one more is being added to the pile, as Walter Matthau's son Charles Matthau…
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Is there something in the air this week? Out of nowhere come a series of three odd Tarantino-related news bites and rumors. First up, there is the new production of The Switch, based on Elmore Leonard's novel of the same name. The other way to talk about The Switch is that it is a prequel…
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