ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke with Marlowe director Neil Jordan about the noir crime thriller.
director Neil Jordan about the noir crime thriller. The director spoke about working with Liam Neeson and adapting, a gripping noir crime thriller set in late 1930’s Los Angeles, centers around a street-wise, down on his luck detective; Philip Marlowe, played by Liam Neeson, who is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress , daughter of a well-known movie star ,” reads the film’s synopsis.
Like you mentioned, there’s a real legacy of film there with fantastic actors playing Marlowe. What did it mean for you to get to contribute to that legacy with Liam? The story? Well, that’s quite a simple thing. The simple thing that I brought to it is … William Monahan had written this wonderful script based on the John Banville novel, which I knew, because John Banville is a friend of mine. It was really interesting that John had given the character Irish roots and he’d given some of the noir-ish … the bad girls — let’s put it that way — Dorothy and Clare. He’d given them both Irish roots.
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