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The first thing I should do is quote my film agent who says that, in his experience, novelists are poor casting agents for their own books.Learn more about Paul Doiron at his website and blog.
Having said that, I’ll take a stab anyway. Mike Bowditch should be a great character for an actor to play—he’s brave and intelligent but impetuous and haunted by violence, both his own and others’—but Hollywood seems to have a dearth of promising male actors under the age of twenty-five (which is Mike’s age in this book). For that reason, I’d probably go with someone a little older like Ryan Gosling, who has the acting chops and has shown an inclination recently to play more physical roles. I haven’t seen enough of Charlie...[read on]
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My Book, The Movie: Trespasser.
--Marshal Zeringue
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