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DOG EAT DOG

Edward Bunker

Berlinale 2016:

Nicolas Cage's 'Dog Eat Dog' Sells for Germany, France, U.K.

Berlin buyers have jumped on Dog Eat Dog, a crime thriller from Taxi Driver scribe Paul Schrader starring Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe.

Described as a gritty crime thriller about a kidnapping that goes horribly wrong, Dog Eat Dog was adapted from the Eddie Bunker novel of the same name by Schrader and Matt Wilder. Louisa Krause, Reynaldo Gallegos and Omar J. Dorsey also star.

Arclight has closed deals on Dog Eat Dog with Metropolitan for France, KSM for Germany, Inopia for Spain and Signature for U.K.. The film also sold across Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Latin America.
The film was produced by Mark Earl Burman of Pure Dopamine.

The tale of three unremorseful criminals with two felony convictions apiece and no more chances. Under California's 'Three Strikes' law, one more conviction - even for shoplifting - carries a mandatory life sentence with no prospect of remission. But a law intended to deter career criminals has the opposite effect on these three. Combined they have spent a lifetime behind bars and have no idea, or intention, of leading a straight life under rules set by a system they have never belonged to.

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TB: Heyne, 2002. RR.
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Published 1996-05-11 by No Exit Press

Comments

Mr. Bunker has written a raw, unromantic, naturalistic crime drama more lurid than anything the noiresque Chandlers or Hammetts ever dreamed up . . . Dog Eat Dog is an exciting, tightly constructed crime thriller with a fully realized cast of characters.

What distinguishes Bunker from other crime writers is his ability to convey the compassion dormant within his violent criminals without resorting to excess luridness, sympathy or moralism. Bunker has a top-notch screenplay to his credit (Runaway Train); this powerful tale seems tailor-made for Hollywood success as well.

KSM to distribute Dog Eat Dog, a crime thriller from Taxi Driver scribe Paul Schrader starring Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe, in Germany. Read more...

The rough dialog and violence won't have mass appeal, but readers who like hard-edged drama will find much to like here. Recommended.

It's far easier to string adjectives together about this novel than it is to review it: harrowing, compelling, beautifully written, intelligent, affecting, and frightening immediately come to mind.