From The Vaults: Bringing Elmore Leonard Into Sight
Our tribute to one of the great crime writers. Republished from an original interview on this day in 2014. This is an interview with Scott Frank who adapted Elmore Leonard’s novel Out Of Sight. If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. I try to leave out the parts that readers tend to skip – Elmore […]
Bringing Elmore Leonard Into Sight: Part I
Screenwriter Scott Frank talks about his involvement in bringing Elmore Leonard's novel "Out of Sight" from page to screen.
By Pete Croatto. Out of Sight’s screenwriter, Scott Frank, remembers settling into a night at the movies at a Pasadena theater with his wife and his parents. It was May 1998, so the trailers for the summer movies rolled along: Armageddon, Saving Private Ryan and, finally, Out of Sight. When it finished, a woman directly […]
