Charlie Huston, Laura Lippman on TV
by Oline H. Cogdill
January 31st, 2010I used to cringe when I heard of a movie or a TV series being developed about a mystery novel or series.
Charlie Huston, photo by Karen Kohlberg
After all, who can forget Burglar, the 1987 Whoopi Goldberg movie based on Lawrence Block’s Bernie Rhodenbarr novels. If you never saw this movie, don’t. Buy one of Block’s novels instead.
But then along came True Blood, the HBO series based on Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse novels, and Dexter, the Showtime series based on Jeff Lindsay’s novels.
And I became a believer that maybe producers and scriptwriters really could get mysteries – understand the character nuances and plot devises that the top authors are known for.
So, I think we can be hopeful about two upcoming projects.
Charlie Huston, whose latest novel is Sleepless, currently is working with HBO to develop a TV show based on Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death. Alan Ball is the executive producer and that is good news as he’s the name behind True Blood.
Huston is creating the show, writing the pilot, and serving as co-executive producer, according to Random House.
Laura Lippman
Similar good news regards the TV version of Laura Lippman’s work.
Lippman just made a deal for the Tess Monaghan novels to come to TV. The deal, she told me, is with Ostar Enterprises, which is owned by Bill Haber.
Haber, she said, has been very active in theater production and just sold a pilot to TNT, the one based on Tess Gerritsen‘s Rizzoli books. So right there is good news.
No stars are yet attached to the deal, but Lippman said that Haber has a writer in mind.
“I know too much about television to get carried away by this, but I am very, very happy,” she told me in an email.
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