What novel is this thriller with George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez adapted from?

What novel is this thriller with George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez adapted from?
What novel is this thriller with George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez adapted from?

This Sunday, January 5, 2025, Arte is broadcasting one of the coolest thrillers of the 90s, Out of reach. From which novel is the film adapted, led by the ultra glamorous duo George Clooney – Jennifer Lopez?

When it comes to Steven, it’s not just Spielberg who matters in Hollywood. Certainly, the director of Schindler’s List is one of the greatest masters of cinema, but another most interesting filmmaker shares the same first name: Steven Soderbergh. Our man won the Palme d’Or from his first feature film, the sulphurous Sex, lies and video led in particular by Andie MacDowell, future star of Four weddings and a funeral. And has signed several notable films, such as Erin Brockovich (2000) which won Julia Roberts the Oscar for best actress, orTraffic (2001), a virtuoso thriller about drug trafficking crowned with four Oscars, including best director. In 1998, the director released a thriller that was certainly less rewarded but just as attractive with Out of reachbroadcast this Sunday January 5, 2025 at 8:50 p.m. on Arte.

Who is the author of the novel whose Out of reach is the adaptation?

In theaters in December 1998 in , Out of reach follows Jack Foley, a repeat robber who escapes from a penitentiary in Florida with his friend Buddy. FBI officer Karen Sisco, on the scene at the time of the escape, tries to intercept them. But the young woman becomes their prisoner and is forced to live with Jack in the trunk of a car. Mischievous and romantic thriller at will, the film is led by a glamorous and complementary duo composed of George Clooney (Foley), who will find the filmmaker in the saga of Ocean’s and Jennifer Lopez (Sisco), both big screen star and successful singer. The film is adapted from the detective novel Out of sight by cult author Elmore Leonard, also creator of Get shortya book also transposed to the big screen. The latter died in 2013.

Steven Soderbegh, cutting-edge filmmaker

Steven Soderberg didn’t stop his career after the long list of successful feature films, detailed above. Always looking for new challenges, the American director signed in 2011 Contagionan anticipation film which more or less announced the Covid pandemic. In 2018, his thriller Paranoia was shot entirely on a smartphone. And in February 2024, he was racking his fans’ brains with the series Full Circle broadcast on Canal +. A Steven to follow closely…

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