If you’re going to spend millions directing a movie in which you have to watch someone who makes Kevin Costner seem like Robert DeNiro, really, you ought to at least read the story before you get started.
With Paycheck, we have a Philip K. Dick movie made by people who similarly don’t seem to have time for the author’s prose. In an interview with the online news service SCI FI Wire, Paycheck producer Terence Chang said John Woo didn’t read the story that inspired the film.
I like John Woo, so to find out something like this is mildly irritating.
Who is Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is the award winning and best selling author of six books.
What books has Laila Lalami written?
Laila has written the novels, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Moor's Account, The Other Americans, and The Dream Hotel.
What awards has Laila Lalami won?
Laila Lalami has won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, the Hurston-Write Legacy Award, a Guggenheim a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, and a British Council Fellowship. Her work has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.