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Archive for the Tag 'Point of Impact'

Read Entry => December 26, 2008 in: -> One Response so far

Hunter makes it onto a great American’s reading list in this short article from the Wall Street Journal.

Read Entry => June 2, 2008 in: , -> 2 Comments so far

It’s been a big weekend. Somehow, I have made major inroads with my to-do list. One of the older items was a cool essay emailed to me by Weyman Swagger, the veteran Washington-area newspaperman whose name Stephen Hunter borrowed more than a decade ago for the name of the protagonist in his comeback novel, Point [...]

Read Entry => September 30, 2007 in: -> No Responses yet

Old Geezer has a book-of-the-month blog. This month’s book is Point of Impact. Excellent choice!

Read Entry => April 1, 2007 in: -> No Responses yet

The Baltimore Sun-Times photo editor and longtime Stephen Hunter friend whose name was adopted for the lead character in "Point of Impact" has penned a column. Highly recommended reading for Hunter fans.

Read Entry => March 19, 2007 in: -> No Responses yet

More Hunter nuggets buried in yet another preview of Shooter: Shooter is based on Point of Impact , a novel by Stephen Hunter published in 1993, while he was employed as the film critic for the Baltimore Sun. (Hunter has since moved to the Washington Post, where he won a Pulitzer Prize for criticism in [...]

Read Entry => March 17, 2007 in: -> No Responses yet

Glacier?!?! There’s a glacier in Point of Impact? More details as star Wahlberg does another interview.

Read Entry => January 4, 2007 in: -> No Responses yet

The new website for Shooter, the movie based on Point of Impact scheduled for release in the spring, is online.

Read Entry => November 29, 2006 in: , , -> No Responses yet

Stephen Hunter emailed me to report that with Paramount’s film version of Point of Impact (see story below) a new edition of Point of Impact will be released. But the bigger news is Simon & Schuster will publish Hunter’s new Bob Lee Swagger novel, titled “The 47th Samurai” in September of 2007.

Read Entry => November 28, 2006 in: , -> No Responses yet

Paramount Pictures is still four months from the release date of Shooter, the upcoming movie based on Hunter’s Point of Impact, but details are starting to emerge. Here is the Internet Movie Database link, which they will update as info arrives… and this is Bob Lee Swagger: Mark Wahlburg plays the role of Bob Lee… [...]

Read Entry => October 4, 2006 in: -> No Responses yet

Shooter, the movie being shot based on "Point of Impact," spent the last several days in the Baltimore area. The mix of the decades of pent-up anticipation over POI finally being made into a movie, and shooting in Hunter’s home town, generated several stories. In the first, Hunter is inconvenienced, then gets a gig as [...]