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Road To Perdition
The original graphic novel about Capone-era
crime inspired the makers of the film Road To Perdition immediately.
Producer Dean Zanuck, received Collins’
novel and having never even seen a graphic novel, he began
flipping through it and was hooked. “I just loved it,”
he recalls. “The father and son story had a powerful
emotional impact on me, and the illustrations by Richard Piers
Rayner provided a great visual of the period. That, combined
with the action in the piece, made it very appealing. When
I finished it, I said to my wife, ‘I think something
special is going to happen with this.’” Father and
producer Richard D. Zanuck and Steven Spielberg (Dreamworks)
also felt the novel had amazing potential as a film and went
on to base the major production on the book.
Screenplays and novels
As well as working as an independent filmmaker
Collins was creative consultant on "Dick Tracy".
Having scripted the comic strip from ’77 to ’93
and written three Tracy novels Collins was more the qualified
for the role!
Collins has written the novelisation of
Road To Perdition’s screenplay and says: “The screenplay
is very good and quite faithful. The cast and director and
producer are all the best the movie industry has to offer.
I do wish I could have written the script. Their take on the
story differs from mine slightly -- my vision is more violent,
wilder, a John Woo kind of American samurai thing...whereas
this movie will fall more in the Godfather area...which is
a nice area.”
Collins has also published other movie
tie-in novels, like international bestsellers In the Line
of Fire, Maverick, Waterworld, Air Force One, Saving Private
Ryan.
Release Date: September 20
Distributor: Fox
Cert: 15
Running Time: 116 mins
www.fox.co.uk/roadtoperdition
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