Tokyo Suckerpunch coming to the big screen

18 Apr

Posted by David as General

This was revealed today on Isaac Adamson’s website:

Sony has acquired the Isaac Adamson novel “Tokyo Suckerpunch” to adapt into a feature Tobey Maguire will topline.
Studio has hired Ed Solomon to write the pic, to be produced by Maguire through Maguire Entertainment and Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher via their Columbia-based Red Wagon banner.

Tobey Maquire is an interesting choice for Billy Chaka. I just do not know if he has enough “bad ass-ness” or “attitude”. I saw a John Cusack type playing him. I read this some time ago and you can get my impression from my review.

2 Responses

Scott

April 19th, 2005 at 7:14 am

Hope this comes about. But like David Brin has said, nothing is absolute. He has had people talking to him about some of his books and doing movies of them for years. And it took Hollywood 10 years to finally do “The Postman” after it was bought.

Now if Cusak was in it, that would be very cool. I have always liked him. Guess I need to read the book soon.

David

April 19th, 2005 at 8:38 am

I also read on Isaac Adamson’s site that he is taking a break from Billy Chaka, and his next book will not be a Billy Chaka book. Have to wait and see.

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