Westlake’s “Parker” crime fiction ... mercenary work ethic. Black will direct and pen the adaptation alongside Charles Mondry and Anthony Bagarozzi. Joel Silver is attached to produce ...

Black and Silver almost two decades following the release of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, their Warner Bros. cult classic, which was in the same hardboiled vein as as the Parker books.

Westlake’s Parker series ... first project to come out of the deal. Black will write Play Dirty with Charles Mondry and Anthony Bagarozzi. Joel Silver and Susan Downey will join the pair ...

About $20. Until I get a big salary, become an investment banker, or give up and try law school (all unlikely), there's only one pen I'm going to keep on me every day. It's the Parker Jotter.