![]() ![]() Pelecanos has also worked as a producer on the feature films Caught, Whatever, and BlackMale, and was the U.S. Pelecanos currently serves as co- showrunner-with co-creator David Simon-of HBO’s The Deuce, which began its second season in September. In 2005, he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy in Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for The Wire, and in 2014 was nominated in the category of Outstanding Miniseries for Treme. ![]() He was a writer and co-producer on the World War II miniseries The Pacific, and worked as an executive producer and writer on David Simon’s HBO dramatic series Treme, shot in New Orleans. In addition to his novels, Pelecanos was a producer, writer, and story editor for the acclaimed HBO series The Wire. Esquire magazine has described Pelecanos as “the poet laureate of the D.C. Hell to Pay and Soul Circus were awarded the 20 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. He has been the recipient of the Raymond Chandler Award in Italy, the Falcon Award in Japan, and the Grand Prix Du Roman Noir in France. These novels include A Firing Offense, Shoedog, The Big Blowdown, King Suckerman, The Sweet Forever, Shame the Devil, Right as Rain, Hell to Pay, Soul Circus, Hard Revolution, Drama City, The Night Gardener, The Way Home, The Cut, and What It Was. Stephen King once called George Pelecanos “perhaps the greatest living American crime writer.” He is the author of twenty novels set in and around Washington, D.C. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Those who did not support his rule were turned into the downtrodden peasant race, known as "skaa", who have since worked the fields in virtual slavery for their masters. He granted those who supported him in his quest titles and lands of great power and influence, and a magical power known as Allomancy. The Hero, having unlocked the secret to immortality, installed himself as the Lord Ruler of the world and became their deity. ![]() But humanity survived, even prospered, and years passed. The nature and character of the threat has been lost to the mists of time, but the Hero was evidently successful in his quest, as the Deepness was destroyed and the Hero returned in triumph, but not without great cost - the sun became red, Ashmounts filled the sky with ashes that forevermore fell to the earth, plants withered and turned brown, and mysterious mists (whispered by the superstitious to be sentient and malevolent) enwreathed the lands by night. ![]() Long ago, a conqueror and philosopher was acclaimed as the Hero of Ages and sent to vanquish an ancient evil known only as the Deepness. You can also read about the Sequel Series, Wax and Wayne. This page is for the original Mistborn trilogy. ![]() ![]() It is as faithful as it can be to Thompson’s work, and that is one of its high points as well as one of its problems. The latest tackling of Thompson comes from British director Michael Winterbottom whose The Killer Inside Me is a fascinating and quite flawed version of Thompson’s 1952 novel. Both movies ended with Doc and Carol McCoy off to Mexico with a satchel of cash in the novel, they find that money doesn’t buy them happiness, to say the least. The Getaway, both Steve McQueen’s 1972 version and the 1994 one with Alec Baldwin, is, admittedly a guilty pleasure, though not as faithful to the book. Even Donald Westlake who wrote the screenplay for The Grifters liked it best. According to the same Times article, Coup de Torchon is considered the best adaptation of any Thompson movie. British director Stephen Frears gave us the excellent The Grifters in 1990 while Frenchman Bertrand Tavernier’s 1981 film Coup de Torchon was an adaptation of Thompson’s novel Pop. ![]() The most successful filmings of his novels have been by Europeans, as the New York Times recently pointed out. Yet there was certain poetry in the way he could look into a person’s soul and see nothing but darkness. This hard-boiled author, whose career began in 1942 and lasted through the early 1970s, had a noir vision that often bleak. ![]() Jim Thompson’s novels do not come easily to the screen. ![]() |