If Jane Black did his job as a writer and director, The legendary screenwriter who gave us "deadly weapon", "The Last Boy Scout" and "Long Kiss Good Night" (three of the biggest Hollywood action films made during the most celebrated day of the genre, a singular crime franchise with his new film "Play Dirty" will begin. The surname of the second author says it all;

Parker adheres to the simplest codes: if we work together, don't cross me, and I won't kill you. Aside from that, he is fully committed to the life of the thief - and while Stark folds the deck only tad with only rough people, Parker almost never makes solids. He just does his business and moves to the next job. Westlake/Stark is also advancing in the clarity of his ammorality. When you argue with humanity and focus on simply, efficiently taking money for other people, the world is your dead oyster as an author. Each novel is a savage piece of reverse engineering: Take the parker on a tree, shoot bullets towards it and let it blow the way down.

I read every book Parker, but I almost never recommend it to friends. I know many fans of criminal fiction who consider the character too dark and too elusive. Conspiracy can be increased surgical, but these stories leave you with icy pleasure. The chances are ranked in the sky high, but Parker wins because his blood works colder than the other man. You know right away if that's your pace.

This may sound like a strange fit for black, whose pulp fantasy is shot with harsh cheerfulness, but I have spoken to him many times, and I know he loves Parker's novels. When he brought him to Robert Downey Runior to portray the protagonist, I was immediately drawn to pairing (Black, after all, I saved my career in post-impession By throwing into a "kiss kiss bang bang"), but I didn't know if I could see Motormoututed Star as a stoic killer. I have no idea what happened behind the scenes, but Downey saved the project, which led to the casting of another A-skip star, which is actually at best when it doesn't talk so much. Did Black find the man born to play Parker?

Mark Walberg is the strangest of film stars. He appeared as a soft, boyfriend leading to films like "Boogie Night", "The Great Hit" and "Three Kings", just to throw a tooth in that picture with his performances in "The Yards", "The Perfect Storm" and "Four Brothers". But I think he has given his best performance to this day as an emotionally upset firefighter in "I Heart Huckabee". Walberg, always a good co -worker, was looking for an action Ardwarr after that, but still found time to challenge himself as a heart father in Peter Acksecson's "beautiful bones" ((the beautiful bone "(The role he took from Ryan Gosling.

There was a path of Asonerson Stetam for Walberg, but he lowered him to almost every step. I was particularly hit by his decision to play bald, a criminal miracle in Mel Gibson's "risk of flight". We have a picture of Walberg as a meteor dating back to his days as the Leader of the Fun Cup, but he often projected the opposite of this in the films. Well, maybe, opposite Lake Stanfield as Sterk Silver, he is ready for a real role of franchise as Parker in Black's "Dirty".

There is concern that Black, in reconfiguring Parker's part of Downey, has switched to the road to certainly accurate with Walberg (which is better suitable for the character as written by Stark), but the man who gave us a "kiss, bang" and "beautiful guys" is " He knows how to make this kind of material to sing like a whiskey blouse. Walberg, when he is just Walberg (ie heavy and narrow), has things to nail Parker. He is not Marvin (who nailed the character in Johnon Borman's "blank", adaptation of the "hunter"), but if he plays it close to the bone, he could correspond to the portrayal of his Pal Gibson on Parker in Brian Helgeland's "Message".

It is a huge opportunity for an actor who has never been the guy you expect. I think Walberg enjoys playing bad, and he will never get a better opportunity than playing Parker in "Play Dirty". 'LLE reveals whether he pulled it out when the film hit the premiere video on October 1, 2025.