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Mar. 13th, 2008 09:47 amI just found out there's a movie adaptation of In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead coming out with Tommy Lee Jones playing Dave Robicheaux and Peter Sarsgsard playing one of my favorite of James Lee Burke's screwed-up characters and just a metric buttload of good actors.
I like James Lee Burke's books quite a bit, largely because his characters are incredible; he especially does such a good job of portraying the kind of people who are damaged and often people you don't want to let too deeply into your own life but they aren't sum total bad people. He doesn't make it easy. And Electric Mist is such an excellent example of his work.
I'm not that familiar with the French director Bertand Tavernier, though I know his adaptation of Jim Thompson's Pop. 1280 is thought to be excellent (I haven't seen it yet, but I am a Thompson fan), and he seems to get high marks for most of his films. So overall I'm pretty optimistic.
I like James Lee Burke's books quite a bit, largely because his characters are incredible; he especially does such a good job of portraying the kind of people who are damaged and often people you don't want to let too deeply into your own life but they aren't sum total bad people. He doesn't make it easy. And Electric Mist is such an excellent example of his work.
I'm not that familiar with the French director Bertand Tavernier, though I know his adaptation of Jim Thompson's Pop. 1280 is thought to be excellent (I haven't seen it yet, but I am a Thompson fan), and he seems to get high marks for most of his films. So overall I'm pretty optimistic.
