They're going to be in your shit for a few months (Laughs) and it probably could be aggravating unless you go with someone you really respect. What is the process for finding a screenwriter for one of your books? Is it like finding a spouse for one of your kids then?ĭennis Lehane: No, I think it's more like finding a really good contractor to work on your house.

There was a quote from you that I read where you said that you wouldn't want to adapt one of your own novels because it would be like operating on one of your own children. I have no problem walking away and leaving a bunch of money on the table. The secret of my success is refusing to get involved with anybody who doesn't have a certain level of quality. I wanted to be involved with really good people and I wanted to have conversations with those really good people about talent and that was sort of the limit of my contribution to things. I just wanted to be involved as a producer because, at that point, I didn't have Shutter Island for several years and gotten it back, gotten the rights back, and I wanted to protect this a little bit. Can you talk about that experience working with everyone on the film?ĭennis Lehane: Oh, it was great.

32.This is the first film that you are on board with as a producer. Because someone is trying to drive him insane. And the more he begins to believe that he may never leave Shutter Island.

The closer Teddy gets to the truth, the more elusive it becomes. 9780553824483 Shutter Island 32.7000 NZD InStock /shop/books/fiction /shop/books/fiction/crime-thrillers /shop/books The international bestseller, now re-released to tie in to the new Martin Scorsese film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Kingsley. How has a barefoot woman escaped from a locked room? Who is leaving them clues in the form of cryptic codes? And what really goes on in Ward C? The international bestseller, now re-released to tie in to the new Martin Scorsese film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Kingsley.Īs a killer hurricane bears down on the island, the investigation deepens and the questions mount. US Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to find an escaped murderer named Rachel Solando.Īs a killer hurricane bears down on the island, the investigation deepens and the questions mount. Tie-in to the major motion picture, released on 12th March 2010. The international bestseller, now re-released to tie in to the new Martin Scorsese film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Kingsley.

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