Tarantino didn’t just adapt him for one movie, he learned a lot about dialogue from reading him. Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown - based on Leonard’s novel Rum Punch - is his warmest film partly because it’s a love letter to two people, Pam Grier and Elmore Leonard. You’ve seen the films and TV shows by people who consumed his work and on some level wanted to be him. Majestyk, Hombre, The Tall T, Jackie Brown, 3:10 to Yuma (two versions) … hell, just look up his CV, like you need to.

He was catnip to TV and film producers looking for material nearly two dozen of his novels and short stories became movies or shows, including Justified, Get Shorty, Be Cool, 52 Pick-Up (also adapted as The Ambassador), Mr. Leonard was prolific: 46 books, seven screenplays, two teleplays. “I leave out the parts people skip,” he said. Leonard died at 87, not long after suffering a stroke. It started, “The night Vincent was shot he saw it coming.” Forty-five minutes later, my boss poked me in the shoulder and said, “Get back to work.” I opened the paperback on a whim in the college bookstore where I worked as a clerk. It does not store any personal data.Author Elmore Leonard poses during a portrait session prior to a reading and signing of his latest novel “Up In Honey’s Room” on at Book Soup in Los Angeles, California.Įlmore Leonard knew how to start a story.

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