Tag: The Warriors
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Lin-Manuel Miranda Is Adapting The Warriors As A Stage Musical. We Have Thoughts
Walter Hill’s 1979 cult action thriller “The Warriors” is a favorite among film fans, adapting Sol Yurick’s 1965 novel of the same name into an addicting tale about a group of rival gangs in New York City all trying to track down and take out a group known as the Warriors after they’re framed for…
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This 2,400-Year-Old True Story Inspired a ’70s Action Classic
Sometimes the most effective adaptations are the most transformative. It sounds absurd to consider that a movie about gang warfare could be based on not just a 2,400-year-old story, but actual history. Yet Walter Hill’s The Warriors – which is based on the Sol Yurick novel of the same name, itself based on Xenophon’s Anabasis…
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Walter Hill on Returning to the Genre He Loves Most
If you were an action fan in the 1970s, ’80s, or ’90s, one of the great pleasures of filmgoing was the experience, every year or two, of a new Walter Hill movie. No one else was really making movies like him, and no one had before; although his morally and philosophically oriented genre pictures owed…
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‘Dead for a Dollar’ Trailer: Christoph Waltz Is a Deadly Bounty Hunter in Walter Hill’s Latest Western
“48 Hrs” and “The Warriors” director Walter Hill is set to receive the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award for his lifetime of achievements at the Venice International Film Festival this year. But while he’s there, the 80-year-old director is also premiering a new film. “Dead for a Dollar” stars Christoph Waltz as an Old…
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Western ‘Dead for a Dollar’ Will Team Director Walter Hill With Willem Dafoe and Christoph Waltz
Walter Hill, the legendary filmmaker behind 48 Hrs., Streets of Fire, The Warriors, and so much more, is getting back behind the camera for the Western Dead for a Dollar. It’s Hill’s first feature since 2016’s questionable The Assignment, and will have the director working with Christoph Waltz and Willem Dafoe in a tale of…