I’ll move on.īrendan’s sidekick, Cobb Kuzawa, takes a fun-loving but loyal soul. Again, I have no luck to peg the right actor. I’d make the bet that in his heyday Rip Torn would excel as Mr. MacMurray shuffled off this mortal coil in 1991. Fred MacMurray later in his career arises in my mind’s eye. I’d love to screen test Tommy Lee Jones or Sean Connery, but their top star salary requirements sink that idea. Kuzawa is a Korean War vet now turned mountain man. So, I’ll postpone making the leading man decision.īrendan’s mentor, the middle-aged Mr. A young Ward Bond, John Wayne’s compadre, seems made to order, but then Ward has long since been gone from Glitter Town, RIP since 1960, in fact. Ditto for George Clooney and Daniel Day-Lewis. The superb Russell Crowe fits the right physique, but he might be a bit long in the tooth. Therefore I’m in search of a guy in that age range bearing a husky build.
He’s a pressman by trade, a somewhat rugged job with heavy lifting involved. Here, he spins us up to speed on his casting advice to make the film of Lake Charles:īrendan Fishback, my intrepid hero, falls in his early 20s. Lynskey has pitched his idea for the movie, but, alas, the Hollywood suits have only turned a deaf ear to him. Ed Lynskey, after banging out five hardboiled titles in the Private Investigator Frank Johnson series, now offers up Lake Charles, a standalone Appalachian noir set in the 1970s.
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