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Should do a film noir/detective story/murder mystery

posted 10 years ago by ThreeSadTigers
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Wayward Pines Ep. 1 proved that he definitely has the chops for it.

While I really enjoyed the direction the show subsequently took, I still loved the atmosphere and the intrigue and the paranoia of the first episode and would've liked to have seen that aspect of the pilot fully developed.

He's probably the only contemporary filmmaker who could produce a film noir mystery as deadpan and genuinely bizarre as something like Murder, My Sweet (aka Farewell My Lovely). An actual masterpiece that contains the following line...

"'Okay Marlowe,' I said to myself. 'You're a tough guy. You've been sapped twice, choked, beaten silly with a gun, shot in the arm until you're crazy as a couple of waltzing mice. Now let's see you do something really tough - like putting your pants on.'"

[–] disconnexions 9 years ago

That's a really good idea. I'd actually like to see him team up with Bruce Willis again. Bruce always plays a great cop, and an aging private detective role would be appropriate. It could be a 'Black Dahlia' type of case or even a story that has supernatural elements involved.

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