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I have to confess something dear readers. This concept is brilliant because since the first movie was made, every author pictures their book as a movie. I don't care what you write, how you write, we all do.Visit Peter Colt's website.
My novel Cold Island, returns to my roots, both literally and literary. My first novel The Off Islander was set on Nantucket Island and I lived there until I was 13. Even after I moved away I went back regularly until my father passed away in 2014. I mention all of this because I not only picture actors but also a director for the book to movie sequence.
Cold Island is set on Nantucket Island, in both 1981 and 2016. When I was writing the book I was concerned about casting two characters, Massachusetts State Police Detective Tommy Kelly and Nantucket Police Detective Jo Harris. There are lots of other characters but those were the two that carry the story. There is a roughly ten year age difference between them.
My first choice to play MSP Detective Tommy Kelly is Ben Affleck. He is also the person whom I would want to direct the movie as well. My protagonist Tommy Kelly is a lifelong resident of Massachusetts. He is fit and complex. Ben Affleck is a solid actor but would have a huge advantage in that none of the regional nuance would have to be explained to him. He knows it because he's lived it. And for the Boston/Massachusetts accent...[read on]
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