...writer writes when he wants to show off what he's learned about thriller conventions and to mess with them, the way Anthony Shaffer and Ira Levin did on stage with "Sleuth" and "Deathtrap." The film is gabbier than usual for this kind of thing......
Remaking "Sleuth" seems unnecessary, really. Anthony Shaffer's endlessly circulated stage thriller was filmed in 1972 by Joseph L. Mankiewicz in a prestige project featuring Laurence......
...at the helm. According to Variety, Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter has written a new adaptation of Anthony Shaffer's two-hander, which will begin shooting in January in London. The story, set entirely in and around a single......
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