Hunters books would make great movies. Why has it only happened once?
Hunter’s day job was movie critic, and in a sense, each of his books is written by someone who has thought a lot about what makes a movie great. You can just tell his books would make killer movies, easily. “Point of Impact” was finally released as Shooter (Widescreen) (Blu-ray) in 2008 following more than 10 years of off-again on-again rumors about its production. Initially, Hunter fans were mostly opposed to the Producer’s plan to star Keanu Reeves as Bob Lee Swagger. Keanu was too young, too pretty, to Gen-X’y for many. At the last minute, Keanu signed different contracts for double or triple the millions to do Matrix sequels, and he became unavailable. But, Hollywood reported days later, the project was not dead. Ironically, Al Gore’s college roommate, Tommy Lee Jones, was cast as Bob Lee after another rewrite was completed to match the age perspective of the star (ie put it back to the way Hunter wrote it). William Friedkin was going to direct. Friedkin and Jones had just complete
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