On July 18, after an eight-year absence, “Justified” returns as an eight-episode limited series based on Elmore Leonard’s 1980 novel “City Primeval.” But a question remains, and it has been asked for 60 years now: What would Leonard think
After seeing the movie adaptation of his 1983 novel “Stick,” Elmore Leonard did what he did best: He sat down to write. Four pages were required to convey his distaste, and he fired them off to film director Burt Reynolds. Leonard also mailed Reynolds a doctored copy of the movie poster with its tagline altered, from “The only thing he couldn’t stick to were the rules” to “The only thing he couldn’t stick to was the script.
During the Leonard Renaissance of the ’90s, the directors “not only made an effort to catch the voice that they heard,” Rzepka says, but they also “understood his sense of humor.” And that is often where things go awry. Take “Stick,” a perfect example of a book thatAnd it’s funny, not because the characters are making great jokes but because of how ridiculous they are. The humor is often deadpan and baked in the writing.
“So I could really change anything I wanted, so long as I was true to what I loved so much,” specifically the violence of Leonard’s gangster characters juxtaposed with their “vulnerability and emotional pathos.” Says Holmes, “There is something very funny about tough guys who are processing emotions and trying to make their way in the world in which violence is not always the perfect solution.”
Eventually a studio picked up his script, assembled a cast featuring Owen Wilson, Morgan Freeman and Gary Sinise, and hired George Armitage to direct. Leonard was intrigued. Perhaps the film “renaissance” of his work would continue. But somewhere along the line — Gutierrez can’t pinpoint where — everything fell apart. Gutierrez says “the movie bears very little resemblance to what I wrote.”
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