Daniel Pyne's Blog, page 2
February 11, 2017
The Firm
I was asked to rewrite David Rabe’s adaptation of John Grisham’s bestselling novel, The Firm. My draft attracted Tom Cruise and, later, Sydney Pollack, who I worked with for six weeks on a new draft, but I had to leave the project because of a prior commitment on another project. The great Robert Towne came in and helped Sydney make the film his own. When the time came to arbitrate for credits I decided not to participate. My agents thought I was crazy. But I think credits should accoun...
Bosch
Executive Producer, Writer (2017)
The Marshal
Executive Producer, Co-creator (1995)
December 18, 2014
FIFTY MICE Is A LitReactor 2014 Best Book Pick
LitReactor Staff Picks: The Best Books of 2014
December 18, 2014
‘Fifty Mice’ by Daniel Pyne: A guy gets drugged and whisked away into the witness protection program for reasons he cannot fathom. Do they have the wrong guy? Does he just not remember why he needs protection? Is what he experiences even real?
Read the full post here.
December 3, 2014
Library Journal Review of Fifty Mice
Pyne, Daniel. Fifty Mice. Blue Rider. Jan. 2015. 304p. ISBN 9780399171642. $26.95; ebk. ISBN 9780698168701. F
Jay Johnson is floating through life; if pressed, he would probably say that happiness has been elusive. After all, being alive isn’t the same as living. Things take a drastic turn for Jay when he’s placed into the witness protection program very much against his will and whisked away to an enclave on Catalina Island, populated with program people and a gaggle of federal agents. They c...
1/16/15: Talk/Signing at Book Soup (Los Angeles)
January 16, 2015 at 7:00 pm
Book Soup
8818 W Sunset Blvd
West Hollywood, CA
Discussion and signing of FIFTY MICE. For more information:http://www.booksoup.com/dan-pyne-2015
New event: Talk/Signing at Book Soup (Los Angeles)
Book Soup
8818 W Sunset Blvd
West Hollywood, CA
Discussion and signing of FIFTY MICE. For more information:http://www.booksoup.com/dan-pyne-2015
Publishers Weekly Review of Fifty Mice
Issue: November 10
Fifty Mice
Dan Pyne, Author
At the start of this wonderfully paranoid jaunt through competing realities from Pyne (Twentynine Palms), Jay Johnson, an ordinary guy, is abducted at a Los Angeles subway station. A deputy U.S. marshal known as Public later informs him that he’s in the Federal Witness Protection Program because of a murder investigation. While Jay claims ignorance, it becomes apparent that his memories are easily forgotten, manipulated, or invented. He’s given a fa...
