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20. There was a knock off

Wed Nov 25, 2015, 10:23 AM

Nov 2015

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called Night Moves that was actually released a few years ago. The movie rights owners of TMWG sued them, not sure what the state of that litigation is now. That is likely keeping them from moving forward on their own proper version.

I don't know if a film could due it justice, too much good story for a two hour movie. I think I would rather see a miniseries type, maybe 6-8 segments shown on AMC or HBO.

Who would you cast? My choices:

George- Aaron Paul, not quite right physically and getting long in the tooth for playing a 25 year old, but attitude would go a long way. Shame that Joaquin Phoenix is too old.

Bonnie- Ashley Green

Seldom Seen- Ethan Hawk

Doc- Liev Schreiber or JK Simmons

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