Fans of
Mystic River and
Gone Baby Gone will be happy to hear that another novel from Dennis Lehane is being adapted, this time by the maverick Martin Scorsese and re-teaming him with Leonardo DiCaprio.
Shutter Island (2009)
The film is currently listed as being in post-production and has a release date of October of next year.
The film is an adaptation of Lehane's 2003 suspense novel of the same name.
Review taken from
Booklist:
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Lehane is red hot--his Mystic River (2001) is currently being filmed by Clint Eastwood--and he returns with another blistering page-turner. It's 1954, and U.S. Marshals Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule arrive at a small island in Massachusetts' Outer Harbor. It is home to Ashcliffe Hospital, a federal institution for the criminally insane, and one of the patients has escaped. Although the two men are new partners, they have already developed a wry, jocular relationship while also swapping personal, painful details. Daniels' lost his much-loved wife two years prior in a fire, while Aule requested a transfer out of Seattle after being harassed over his personal relationship with a Japanese American woman. After interviewing the hospital's medical personnel, both men have the feeling they are being stonewalled, especially by the director, who seems to alternate between a cold authoritarianism and a sudden and sweeping compassion. When the island is hit by gale-force winds and Aule disappears, Daniels must go it alone, beset by the fear that he has been fed psychotropic drugs and the belief that the hospital is performing radical brain surgery as part of a secret-ops program. Lehane throws in one mind-bending plot twist after another in a psychological thriller that will leave readers in suspense right up to the end. A master of the adroit psychological detail, Lehane makes the horrors of the mean streets pale in comparison to the workings of the human mind.
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I will STRONGLY RECOMMEND giving this book a read. It's one of my favorite books and has without a doubt one of the best, creepiest endings ever, and if Scorsese can pull it off on celluloid, films like
The Usual Suspects and
The Sixth Sense will be taking a back seat to a new shocker of a film.
SHUTTER ISLAND (Scorsese/DiCaprio)
