Reckless is a Mean Bastard Noir Waiting to Be Franchised
Reckless, the new graphic novel series from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, is aching for cinematic adaptation. We suggest how to get it done.
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Welcome to
Pitch Meeting, a monthly column in which we suggest an IP ripe for adaptation, then assign the cast and crew of our dreams. In this entry, we’re pitching an ongoing franchise based on the Reckless series written by Ed Brubaker and illustrated by Sean Phillips.
In a jam, who ya gonna call? Someone meaner than the brute on your back. Ethan Reckless, not really a P.I., not really a goon. He’s somewhere in the middle, one of the fallen, eager to take on fellow heavenly castaways.
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The Wedding Singer to
Punch-Drunk Love and
Uncut Gems to boot. Of course, heâs also known as being the king of the Razzies, the awards ceremony known for awarding those who have underachieved or done poorly with movie choices in a given year. Intriguingly, Adam Sandler is not the A-lister with the most personal Razzie wins, however.
According to information compiled by Bonus, the
Jack and Jill star has accumulated four personal Golden Rapberry Awards, which ties him in third place with Kevin Costner (another actor whose movies run the gamut from
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Punch-Drunk Love, writer and director Miranda July observed that a crucial aspect of the film’s atmosphere lies in its depiction of the world’s inherent scariness. “Anderson does such a good job of describing that perpetually alarmed feeling – the trucks literally roar by like
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