‘Killer Joe’ For Bill Friedkin, Tracy Letts, Matthew McConaughey, & Emile Hirsch

COMMENTS (10)

• Odd for you to leave out the fact that “Killer Joe” is a well-known play — Letts is adapting his own work here. Hard to know why anyone would get excited about re-teaming Letts and Friedkin after “Bug” (another one of Letts’ plays).

  “Bug” was an interesting effort, but honestly it was just a filmed play. With no one else driving the bus, I’m afraid that’s what will happen here.

  Comment by Just Say No — Sunday September 12, 2010 @ 8:44pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • My thoughts exactly. Friedkin’s last great movie was 25 years ago – “To Live and Die in LA”.

    Comment by bill — Monday September 13, 2010 @ 12:10am PDT  Reply to this post

  • ?? It specifically says “Friedkin is teaming again with Tracy Letts (Bug) who’s scripting the pic based on his play about a Dallas detective who is also a hired killer.” As far as BUG being a filmed stage play, that was almost a requirement: by necessity it took place in one claustrophobic motel room. There was no way to “open up” that play without completely changing it. This play is another ballgame entirely.

    Comment by John — Monday September 13, 2010 @ 5:51pm PDT  Reply to this post

• great script, great director, and a cool cast!

  Comment by chria — Monday September 13, 2010 @ 5:05am PDT  Reply to this post

• It will be cool to see these two together. I’m interested in seeing how Matthew is in this film.

  Comment by OST — Monday September 13, 2010 @ 5:35am PDT  Reply to this post

• Great play, interesting and unique story. Terrible idea to attach Freidkin who is so washed up I forget he’s even still around. After what he did to Letts’ BUG, I’m surprised he’d allow him to botch another one of his plays.

  Comment by Jorge — Monday September 13, 2010 @ 11:21am PDT  Reply to this post

• Billy is at his best with black comedy and multi-layered crime drama. Hell, his whole career has been a black comedy, and no one is better at showing three sides of a coin. Plus the very idea that a Master director gets to make a drama with actors instead of CGI is promising.

  Comment by Santayana — Monday September 13, 2010 @ 11:56am PDT  Reply to this post

• Great play – guess they couldn’t get the cast from the Chicago production, that’s too bad.

  Comment by J D Burca — Monday September 13, 2010 @ 7:36pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I liked what Friedkin did with Letts’ BUG – it’s such a perverted play, and Friedkin brought a great sense of claustrophobia and doom. I saw KILLER JOE off broadway years ago – I ended up going because I got free tickets, had never heard of it – and I’ll never forget it. Another perverted play, but Letts’ writing is so great, the characters are so twisted and the climax is so white trashy violent, I’ll never forget it. I bet this is going to rock, and it will be a real departure for McConaughey. His character is NOT a nice guy.
  Friedkin is a good adapter of plays. Remember how good his BOYS IN THE BAND was in like 1970? That was a one set play, and as a movie it was never static, even being basically word for word from the stage original. His TV adaptation of 12 ANGRY MEN was the same type of thing.
  Top the person who called Friedkin “washed up” – say what you will, but this is an Oscar winning director you’re talking about. Be nice. He went out of favor when he made CRUISING, but even that, despite the mess it was, had moments of real terror.

  Comment by Joe — Monday September 13, 2010 @ 11:24pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This is so lucky charm that i ever had.

  Comment by sabale liera m. catedras — Wednesday March 23, 2011 @ 3:32am PDT  Reply to this post