Chuck Hogan

Chuck Hogan Scripting Crime Drama About the Winter Hill Gang for Producer Graham King

by Bill Graham    Posted: October 18th, 2010 at 11:08 pm

Chuck Hogan is a busy man these days. His bestselling novel Prince of Thieves was recently adapted into the Charlestown crime drama The Town. Hogan is set to revisit Boston with a crime drama that centers on the Winter Hill Gang and enforcer John Martorano.  Graham King and Tim Headington (The Town) will produce. King is best known for his work with Martin Scorsese, particularly the crime drama that won them a Best Picture Oscar: The Departed. Hit the jump for more details on the film and what Hogan and Guillermo del Toro are working on.

Blake Lively and Chris Cooper Join Ben Affleck’s THE TOWN

by Ramses Flores    Posted: August 27th, 2009 at 10:04 am

“Gossip Girl’s” Blake Lively and Chris Cooper (“Breach”) have joined the cast of Ben Affleck’s crime thriller, “The Town”.  The actor turned director follow up to 2007′s “Gone Baby Gone” already has a pretty solid ensemble cast including Affleck, Jon Hamm, Rebecca Hall, and Jeremy Renner. The film is an adaptation of Chuck Hogan’s novel “Prince of Thieves” and follows the story of a bank manager (Hall),  the career criminal (Affleck) who stole more than her heart, and the dedicated FBI agent (Hamm) trying to bust the crook and his gang, of which Renner is a part of. To read some of my thoughts about the cast and who Lively and Cooper will be playing, hit the jump.

Jon Hamm and Rebecca Hall Join Ben Affleck’s THE TOWN

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: July 27th, 2009 at 8:25 pm

Jon Hamm and Rebecca Hall have been added to the cast of director Ben Affleck’s “The Town”.  The drama – from Warner Brothers and Legendary Pictures – will star Affleck as a notorious bank robber from… you guessed it! Boston.  Hit the jump to find out what Don Draper will be up to when he hits “The Town”…

THE STRAIN Book Review

by Ray Carsillo    Posted: May 31st, 2009 at 6:02 pm

Normally literature doesn’t fall into my realm of reviews, but when the director of the Oscar winning film Pan’s Labyrinth and the comic book movies Hellboy 1 and 2 says he’s written a vampire novel, you reconsider. Guillermo del Toro, the premiere modern guru of visual effects, teamed with accomplished fiction writer Chuck Hogan, and they have released the first in a trilogy of thriller novels.

The first book in The Strain Trilogy, aptly titled The Strain, sets the stage by playing on the fears of the modern age mixed with classic figures from horror’s lengthy mythology.

A plane suddenly stops working on a runway after a perfect flight from overseas. After the plane is pried open since it was locked from the inside, and almost all of the passengers are found dead, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) is called in and the head of their early response “Canary” team, Dr. Eph Goodweather, is baffled by the strange findings in the plane. After examining the situation, he is left with a feeling of dread that chills him to the bone as he tries to implement his scientific methods to a situation that clearly does not follow the rules of modern science.

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