![]() ![]() It also launched a lucky streak of successful Hollywood film versions of Lehane books that includes Ben Affleck’s “Gone, Baby, Gone” (2007) and Martin Scorsese’s “Shutter Island” (2010). The film’s stars, Sean Penn and Tim Robbins, won Academy Awards in their acting categories. The film adaptation of “Mystic River” (2003) was nominated for six Oscars. If you’re going to take the leap, take it with Clint Eastwood.” The book wasn’t a crime novel, it was a tragedy. “He got it, he got what the book was (about). “He just wore me down,” Lehane, 50, said. ![]() I just had this vibe that if I sold it to Hollywood they would (bleep) it up.” I don’t think you come to my books for plot but you come to movies for plot. “It didn’t seem to me to be a natural fit. “I was reluctant to sell to Hollywood, I was reluctant to see the book turned into a movie,” Lehane said during a recent phone interview. ![]() When Oscar-winning director and iconic actor Clint Eastwood called novelist Dennis Lehane to buy the film rights to the gritty book “Mystic River” in 2002, Lehane did what most young American writers would do. ![]()
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