mystery

The Foreigner

(written by David Marconi, based on the novel "The Chinaman" by Stephen Leather)

Highly Recommended! | crime, drama, mystery, film, action, thriller, film based on novel, Michael McElhatton, Katie Leung, Jackie Chan

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Get Out

(written by Jordan Peele)

Highly Recommended! | mystery, film, thriller, horror, culture, Daniel Kaluuya, Lakeith Stanfield, Jordan Peele, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Marcus Henderson, Betty Gabriel, Stephen Root, LilRel Howery

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Blade Runner 2049

(written by Hampton Fancher & Michael Green, based on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick)

Highly Recommended! | mystery, sci-fi, film, thriller, Ryan Gosling, Robin Wright, Harrison Ford, film based on novel, Michael Green, Hampton Fancher, Philip K. Dick, Ana de Armas, Edward James Olmos, Sylvia Hoeks, Sean Young, Barkhad Abdi

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"I have always wanted to write mysteries, ever since I was a little girl growing up in rural Indiana. We used to ride our ponies to the library and fill up the saddlebags with books, and then read up on the hayloft of the barn behind our house. I fell in love with Hercule Poirot, Sherlock Holmes, and Nancy Drew. And that's when I decided I wanted to either be a detective or a mystery author."

— Hank Phillippi Ryan

for Creatives | reading, books, mystery, writing, inspiration/the muse, libraries, Hank Phillippi Ryan

"News stories are compelling mysteries. Life is a compelling mystery. The key of a compelling mystery is—as it is in journalism—to constantly advance the story. No tangents, no digressions, no fancy tricked-up writing. Just a straight-ahead and irresistible tale."

— Hank Phillippi Ryan

for Creatives | mystery, writing, storytelling, magazines, Hank Phillippi Ryan

"I once asked a fan who was a homicide cop, 'Why do you even read this? Isn't it a busman's holiday?' He said, 'Jon, I get the bad guy 70 percent of the time. You get him 100 percent of the time.' People like crime novels because they give a certain sense of—I hate to use the words, but—closure and finality. To some extent that's why people latch onto forensics, and shows like 'CSI' are so popular. DNA, whiz-bang science."

— Jonathan Kellerman

for Creatives | reading, crime, mystery, writing, reaching your audience, Jonathan Kellerman

"There's psychology in anything if you're creating believable characters, but there's an enormous amount that's important that happens outside you, and science fiction and fantasy and detective novels and romances tend to be about action."

— Eleanor Arnason

for Creatives | characters, mystery, romance, sci-fi, fantasy, writing, Eleanor Arnason

"One day, I had a great idea for a mystery. I knew it was a good idea; I got goosebumps and became obsessed. I announced to my husband, 'I'm going to write a mystery.' He was sweetly skeptical, but supportive, and I was naively compelled to write it. I had no idea what I was doing, but I thought—I've read a million mysteries! I'll learn. I was 55 years old, and that book turned out to be Prime Time, which won the Agatha for Best First Novel."

— Hank Phillippi Ryan

for Creatives | your 1st book, awards, create for YOURSELF, mystery, novel writing, suspense, writing, ideas, never stop LEARNING, Hank Phillippi Ryan

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"I had a 260-page screenplay [for Something Wicked This Way Comes]. That's six hours. [Director] Jack [Clayton] said, 'Well, now you've got to cut out forty pages.' I said, 'God, I can't.' He said, 'Go ahead, I know you can do it. I'll be behind you.' So I cut forty pages out. He said, 'Okay, now you've got to cut another forty pages out.' I got it down to 180 pages, and then Jack said, 'Thirty more.' I said, 'Impossible, impossible!' Okay, I got it down to 150 pages. And Jack said, 'Thirty more.' Well, he kept telling me I could do it, and, by God, I went through a final time and got it down to 120 pages. It was better."

— Ray Bradbury

for Creatives | mystery, film, fantasy, thriller, Ray Bradbury, film based on novel, screenwriting, Jack Clayton

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