Thursday, August 22, 2013

Top ten Elmore Leonard film adaptations

One of the Telegraph's top ten Elmore Leonard film adaptations:
Get Shorty (1995)

Leonard’s 1990 bestseller became, five years later, his highest grossing film adaptation. John Travolta, hot from his Pulp Fiction renaissance, played a Miami loan shark who segues to the movie industry – with instant success.
Read about the other entries on the list.

Get Shorty made Justin Peters's list of five of the dumbest bad guys Elmore Leonard created.

--Marshal Zeringue