AV Club Blames Eastwood for Connelly’s to-Screen Failure
The AV Club blames Clint Eastwood for making such a terrible mess of Michael Connelly’s Blood Word that poor Mike has never had another flick made from his pulps.
That seems fair. That movie was awfully un-good.
Eastwood (along with screenwriter Brian Helgeland) also bears responsibility for strangling the movie prospects of modern pulp novelist extraordinaire Michael Connelly in its infancy. The Eastwood-directed 2002 adaptation of Connelly’s Blood Work—about a detective trying to track down the person who killed his heart donor—is so corny and dramatically inert that no one has made films from Connelly’s books since.
If it’s any concellation, Publisher’s Weekly wrote (correctly) of the book:
Fans of Connelly’s Harry Bosch novels will feel right at home with this beautifully constructed, powerfully resonating thriller, and newcomers will see right away what all the fuss has been about.
