Dennis Lehane
If you’ve enjoyed the films Gone Baby Gone, Shutter Island, and Mystic River as well as appreciating the tense drama found in the television series The Wire, you might be interested to know that author Dennis Lehane has had a hand in all four. Yep, the three movies were adapted from Lehane novels and the author worked on three episodes of the Wire between 2004 and 2008. We consider that quite a talent, and one that you might want to keep tabs on as time progresses and you explore book-to-screen adaptations since Lehane obviously has the raw talent to deliver not only riveting novels, but ones that translate incredibly well to the big screen. If you’re interested in being ahead of the curve by reading something now that may be seen on the big screen in the not too distant future you may want to check out Lehane’s most recent offering Moonlight Mile (published November 2010). This riveting new novel picks up where Gone Baby Gone left off, and posits the same universal struggles and challenges of the ever-powerful conflict between good and evil, and its corresponding law and morality. We suggest that if you haven’t yet seen Gone Bay Gone that you do so before picking up Lehane’s latest offering lest it might not be as fully appreciated as it could be. At the very minimum you’ll have a great film to add to your collection, and at the very most you’ll see a film that had everyone talking about it when it was first released, and will no doubt be talking about again should Moonlight Mile get optioned for transfer to film since the two are so closely linked on the continuum of Lehane’s incredible talent pertaining to the universal theme of real characters dealing with real struggles of morality and conscious.