The entry begins:As some of you may know, I studied film in graduate school, worked on a couple of features, and settled into the life of an industrial film/video producer before I started writing novels. So I’ve always approached novel writing like a film-maker. I can’t write a scene without imagining it edited and printed, complete with pans, dolly shots, close-ups, and dressed sets.Libby Fischer Hellmann's crime fiction thrillers include An Eye For Murder, A Picture Of Guilt, An Image Of Death, A Shot To Die For, Easy Innocence, and Doubleback.
Set the Night on Fire was (and is) a film-maker’s dream: a wealth of colorful characters, locations, and, in the portion that goes back to the late Sixties, opportunities to recreate what came before. Frankly, while writing the book, I was more concerned with getting the Chicago settings right than the characters. I obsessed over the apartment/commune the characters inhabited in Old Town, the way Marshall Field’s would have looked, a community hospital on the North Side, Maxwell Street. I hope I’ve done them all justice.
But now comes the fun part. There are more characters in this novel than in some of my others, and some of them are portrayed both as young idealists in the Sixties, as well as more mature adults in the present. I haven’t chosen them all, but here’s what I have so far.
Lila Hilliard: My protagonist. A ‘30s professional financial manager.
In the present: definitely Natalie Portman
Casey Hilliard: Her father.
In the present: Robin Williams
Dar Gantner:
In the present: George Clooney (of course)
In the past:...[read on]
My Book, The Movie: A Shot To Die For.
The Page 69 Test: Easy Innocence.
My Book, The Movie: Easy Innocence.
The Page 69 Test and the Page 99 Test: Doubleback.
Watch the video trailer for Set the Night on Fire, and visit Libby Fischer Hellmann's website and group blog, The Outfit.
My Book, The Movie: Set the Night on Fire.
--Marshal Zeringue
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