Also worth noting that Riverside is 85 miles from Los Angeles County.

Yeah, I get it. I just hate that fucking word with a passion. 2016 here was exhausting with middle aged white women mansplaining non stop.

Can’t lie - I HATE that fucking term. 1st time I ever heard it was a few hours after a woman had spent an hour explaining what the writer of A History Of Violence intended.

This shit is not just relegated to men.

He gave me a copy of the book - when you take THAT many liberties with a script and the movie's that good, you definitely want people to know how much of it was you (ahem).

Eventually, I tracked down the original film. Faithful to the book. Not so great.

Anyway. Fun meeting.

But we'd met once, and he'd expressed great love for my AHOV script, so why not?

I went, and Curtis told me that HIS agents had told him that Josh Olson had an idea for an SP remake he wanted to pitch him.

So we ended up spending an hour having a great chat about film noir.

This and LA Confidential for me, yeah. Fun story - I've always been very vocal about my love for this movie, and way back when, my agents called me and told me Curtis was interested in doing a remake, and wanted to meet with me to discuss writing it.

Seemed odd - it was his script, after all...

LOVE that movie! Amazing screenplay by Curtis Hanson, bears almost no resemblance to the book it’s purportedly based on.

My guy’s 3 1/2 now. Turning him into this in about 2 years.

Have you seen the awesome Exorcist 2 doc yet?

Every fucking time they do another fucking Joker, I scream "FUCKING TUT, YOU CUNTS!!!!"

Different whore, different day.

I kid. Kinda. In classic low rent straight to video fashion, no one from the original would be involved, and it had to have a plot. They wanted a cheesy Shannon Tweed style erotic thriller.

They’d tell you that people were calling that very obvious outcome as soon as Ronald Reagan was elected.

Way back in my straight to video days, I got hired to write - not kidding - Whore 2.

Great guest!

Oh nice. Don’t think I’ve ever heard of this. Sounds tasty.

I mean... they gave one to Henry Kissinger. "Piece of shit" has always been implicit.

Agreed. But they missed a trick not calling it 47 Meters Up.