A year from now, will anyone be interested in the guy who wrote The Road to Perdition? I am very practical. I don't know whether my career has come to a plateau or a spike. There are only 24 hours in a day, seven days in a week. Then Richard and I are going to do a thing called Tales from Road to Perdition, which will be about the father and son on the road." They will be novels Road to Purgatory and Road to Paradise not graphic novels. "I have no shame whatsoever about pursuing this wonderful break. This is Max Allan Collins's time in the sun. "So, as you can see I am shameless," he says with a big grin. An author couldn't have dreamt of a better team to transform his book into a film. Would Mendes's second film be as good as American Beauty? The script must have been good to lure the famously resolute Paul Newman out of retirement. This is the one that everyone has been talking about, the one that everyone has been waiting for. It stars Tom Hanks and Paul Newman and is produced by Steven Spielberg. The film is Sam Mendes's The Road to Perdition. Now one of his novels has been turned into a movie. He has earned the right.įor some 30 years, the fifty-something Iowa writer has been churning out books. But he is allowed to be the loud American. In the elegant bar of a London hotel, the writer's voice carries. THE writer Max Allan Collins doesn't so much talk as bellow.
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