LIFE OF CRIME Premiere to Honor Elmore Leonard

9780062206138In The Rolling Stone Daniel Schechter describes the lengths he went to in his effort to get the rights to Elmore Leonard’s book, The Switch (HarperCollins/Morrow, part of a series of recent rereleases in trade paperback of Leonard’s classic backlist) and how hopeful he was that the author would like the resulting movie, titled Life of Crime.

He had reason to be nervous. With the exceptions of Jackie Brown, Get Shorty, and the FX series, Justified, Leonard wasn’t a fan of the majority of the many adaptations of his work. With the author’s death on Tuesday, first-time director Schecter will never know which category his film would have fallen into.

Starring Jennifer Aniston, the movie was renamed Life of Crime, presumably to separate it from a very different movie Aniston starred in earlier, The Switch, based on a Jeffrey Eugenides’ short story The Baster.

Life of Crime, which also stars John Hawkes, Isla Fisher and Tim Robbins, will premiere next month at the Toronto International Film Festival’s closing gala, which, notes The Rolling Stone is “an unprecedented honor for a relatively new filmmaker” and will be dedicated to Leonard’s memory.

2 Responses to “LIFE OF CRIME Premiere to Honor Elmore Leonard”

  1. RAGHANDRA PRASAD Says:

    I am from India.When would the movie LIFE OF CRIME will have a worldwide release and would the movie could get released here in India

  2. Nora Rawlinson Says:

    Thanks for reading EarlyWord. Unfortunately, we don’t have any information on when LIFE OF CRIME will be released in India.