There's something weirdly promising about reading the description of a book that's about to get a movie adaptation, and having no clue what the plot is actually about. So often books that are turned into movies have bizarrely high-concept stories, like, I don't know, a symbologist who runs around Europe deciphering clues and chasing bad guys, or a glum teenager who falls in love with a vampire. It's sometimes nice to see a good, old-fashioned story, fitting neatly into a specific genre, get its time on the screen.
That's what The Straw Men seems to be, a book by Michael Marshall Smith that's been picked up by Benderspink Entertainment. Interestingly enough, Variety also reports that the book's comic adaptation has been picked up as well-- is this the first time a novel and a comic book of the same story have been set for adaptation simultaneously? The story, which is the first in a trilogy, is about a retired detective brought back to solve a handful of murders that, dum dum dum, are connected by a dark conspiracy.
Like I said, nothing all that new or groundbreaking, but something with a lot of potential. If it was worth turning into a comic book, don't you think it probably deserves its movie turn as well?
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