The Thrilling Detective Web Site: Word On The Street

In the Electric Mist
Finally, Tommy Lee Jones is goiing to do James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux right, and wash away the bad taste that that the Alec Baldwin mess Heaven's Prisoners left. Jones has held the rights for Burke's novels for years, and if anyone can bring the guy to life in all his ragged, jagged glory, it's Jones.They're currently filming on location in Louisiana., from a script adapted from Burke's novel by Mary Olson-Kromolowski and Jerzy Kromolowski, and directed by Bertrand Tavernie. For those of you who know Burke, they know "Mist" was one of his best books, one of the few P.I. books that I've ever read that could genuinely be described as "eerie." The filming of a big budget Hollywood Civil War epic disturbs the ghosts of the past, even as Robicheaux hunts a serial killer. Is Dave really seeing dead people? Or did her fall off the wagon again?

I Come with the Rain
Apparently, Josh Hartnett is set to play a private eye obsessed with a serial killer who heads off to the Far East, on the trail of a missing heir who "has the power to heal with his touch." It was set to begin shooting in Hong Kong in June 2007. Tran Anh Hung (The Scent of Green Papaya) will direct from his own script..

Untitled
Miami Vice director Michael Mann is pitching a Leonardo DiCaprio untitled noir drama, written by John Logan, supposedly takes place on the old MGM lot in the 1930s. DiCaprio will play a private eye/studio fixer who cleans up after stars' scandals created by its stars. He's hired to investigate whether a starlet murdered her husband.

Hawaiian Dick
No, really. There's a lot of talk about this retro flick set in Hawaii, circa 1953, about a down-on-his-luck big-city detective who gets involved in a botched kidnapping that leaves a local island girl dead. Only problem is, she won't stay that way. And if the resulting flick is half as good as the comic book by B. Clay Moore and Steven Griffin, this is gonna be a keeper. johnny Knoxville is rumoured to star, if this sucker ever gets made. It's pencilled in for a 2009 release.

The Equalizer
It was announced in early 2007 that crime writers Terrill Lee Lankford and Michael Connelly are currently writing the screenplay for The Equalizer, a big budget update of the popular TV show from the eighties. The Weinstein Company and Mace Newfeld Productions are producing.

Dead of Night
Currently in production is this supernatural thriller, starring Brandon "Superman" Routh as Dylan Dog, a London "nightmare detective" whose cases typically involve werewolves, vampires, ghosts and other manifestations of the weird and occult. Dog originally appeared in a long-running Italian series of graphic novels.

The Caller
Elliot Gould plays a private eye who's hired -- despite his initial reluctance -- by an anonymous big shot (Frank Langella) at an international energy firm based in New York. They want the detective to tail an employee they're worried will expose the company's corrupt practices in Latin America. But it turns out that the potential whistleblower and the man who hired Gould are the same. (scheduled for a 2008 release)