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Post by fifiserafino on Aug 13, 2011 20:02:00 GMT -5
I'm loving the book - about two thirds the way through. It is SUCH a tease - Steve blushes when Kate comes on to him - hope they keep this tension in the movie. LOTS of action with explosions, gun fights etc. The female lead needs to be smart and sassy. I can sort of imagine Emily Blunt in the role - she does a great American accent. Or Maggie Gyllenhaal.
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Post by scottishdreamer on Aug 13, 2011 20:09:34 GMT -5
I need to read this book! Sounds great!!!
Hope they find a sassy actress for this one too.
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Post by craven on Aug 16, 2011 20:13:24 GMT -5
This book was written with Gerry in mind. He is going to be great. So happy good things are coming to him.  |
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Post by gersarchitect on Aug 16, 2011 20:48:55 GMT -5
This book was written with Gerry in mind. He is going to be great. So happy good things are coming to him. Really? Was it said in an interview? Do yo still have it or a link? I mean reading the book it was easy to picture Gerry but I hadn't heard that it was written with him in mind. |
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Post by craven on Aug 21, 2011 19:33:49 GMT -5
This book was written with Gerry in mind. He is going to be great. So happy good things are coming to him. Really? Was it said in an interview? Do yo still have it or a link? I mean reading the book it was easy to picture Gerry but I hadn't heard that it was written with him in mind. Sorry sweetie, no I never read it in an interview. Just read the book and felt as if he was the perfect fit for Steve Vail. Can't wait to see who they pick to play Kate Bannon, his boss, she's going to have to be strong and a good mesh with Gerry.  |
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Post by terezoulini on Aug 22, 2011 0:34:09 GMT -5
I have been reading the book too and the character matches Gerry so much. I agree that the character was written as if the writer had Gerry in mind. And the good news is that it will have to be a beefier Gerry, sort of Gamer look, maybe a little less beefy but definitely with some meat on him, manlier, more mature than his current look.
Plus the character seems to have a lot of humor and I can see Gerry delivering all these funny lines. There is also flirting going on with two female characters, very much up Gerry's aisle too. Every page you read, you immediately picture Gerry.
In case you are wondering, there is some kissing but, unfortunately, once again, no real love scene in that movie either. They start something and then leave us wanting for more. Let's hope the female script writer and the director will do something about that. :-)
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Post by scottishdreamer on Aug 29, 2011 0:52:59 GMT -5
I just read Bricklayer this weekend. What a fun read. Love the characters and the whole story. Gerry is made for this role. He will have fun with this project.
As for the female lead, let's hope he picks someone he has a lot of chemistry with. How about Reese Witherspoon? Maybe?
Like GA said, there are some scenes without a shirt which we all appreciate. I loved his banter with Kate. It was almost like UT take 2 only Mike is not on steriods. He is still big and strong but much less abrasive.
Another fun one to enjoy!
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Post by Joy on Sept 13, 2011 11:41:57 GMT -5
I just finished the book yesterday. It is a short but enjoyable book. Steve Vail is a perfect fit for Gerry. It wouldn't surprize me it was written with him in mind. The Author Noah Boyd is a pen name and last week or so it was announced that the author had died. I can't remember his real name. I was surprized how there were no really detailed discriptions of the characters. No hair color or eye color that I remembered. I would like to see Angie Harmon from SVU play the female lead.
Paul Lindsay; Ex-Detroit FBI Agent and Prolific Author of 7 Novels Dead at 68
By Allan Lengel
Paul Lindsay, the hard-digging FBI agent who became a prolific author, and wrote seven novels — the last two of which were N.Y. Times best sellers — died peacefully Thursday night at a Boston hospital of pneumonia with his family by his side. He was 68.
The ex-Marine, who friends kidded was a cop trapped in an agent’s suit, was known for his dogged pursuit of criminals, his sharp wit and sometimes a lack of patience for management.
Lindsay graduated from MacMurray College in 1968 and served a tour of duty in Vietnam as a Marine Corps infantry officer, according to his website. In the Marine Corps, he was a Company Platoon Commander who was awarded two Purple Hearts and the Silver for bravery, according to the family.
He later joined the FBI and worked in the Detroit office for 20 years. He lived in Rye, N.H.
He authored his first book at the tail end of his FBI career, which stirred controversy in the FBI because it was a thinly veiled novel that took shots at some folks in the agency.
He went on to write six other books. And just last month it was reported that Millenium Films had acquired the rights to “The Bricklayer”, his best-selling novel penned under the pseudonym Noah Boyd, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Book was written under the pseudonym Noah Boyd
The report also noted that Scottish actor Gerard Butler is supposed to star in the film as a rogue former agent who’s services are needed to battle a criminal group that’s been demanding multi-million dollar ransom payments.
Friends and family said that Lindsay died due to complications from pneumonia.
He had been diagnosed in 2005 with a blood cancer, leukemia, that compromised his white blood cell count, the possible result of his exposure to chemical defoliates when he served in the Marines in Vietnam, the family said.
The condition eventually left him with compromised immune system, which made it difficult to fight off infection. The family said he kept his condition secret from everyone but his immediate family and one friend.
“He never wanted anyone to feel sorry for him or treat him differently–he never permitted himself that luxury,” his family wrote in an email to friends.
In part of a memoir the family shared with friends, Lindsay wrote:
“I am dying. A single cell, damaged and then mutated, is now multiplying at a Pandorian rate through my bloodstream. The aberration was triggered, from best guesses, by Agent Orange, the defoliant dumped so generously-18,000,000 gallons or so–on Vietanam to help keep American troops alive. An irony that is life itself.
“For me, it was over forty years ago. The medical term is Chronic Lyphocytic Leukemia, or to those of us on more intimate footing, CLL. The disease has reached stage four, and unfortunately there is neither a cure nor a stage five.
“. . . I have been the recipient of a great deal of luck in my life. But as John Steinbeck wrote in The Pearl, ‘Luck, you see, brings bitter friends’.”
“Recent events have made it apparent that good fortune is nothing more than a temporary statistical anomaly, which given enough time has little choice but to swing in an opposite and equal arc. In my case, leukemia. Given the extraordinary adventure my good luck has provided to my years, I can offer no complaint about the pendulum’s final resting place.”
His family concluded the email by saying: ”Our Father will be missed, loved and remembered.”
Funeral services will be held at the Robert K. Gray, Jr. Funeral Home 24 Winnacunnet Road, Hampton, N.H. Saturday morning, Sept. 10 at 10 a.m.
Family and friends are invited to call to the funeral home on Friday 2:00-4:00PM and 7:00-9:00PM.
Interment will be at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
In his memory contributions may be directed to: The Wounded Warrior Program
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Post by Dianne on Sept 13, 2011 11:54:02 GMT -5
Thanks Joy for the post.  |
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Post by fifiserafino on Dec 1, 2011 5:25:46 GMT -5
I re-read The Bricklayer whilst on holidays this past week, and when I came back this pic had been posted from the OMAM shoot:  Perfect casting! |
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