Ever since Shane Black was young, he wanted to make a Parker movie. You can imagine that would be the introduction of the movie about Shane Black’s life, told in the heightened-noir style of the director behind Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and The Nice Guys. But it really was his whole childhood, at least, according to Black.
“Donald Westlake was a fixture in my library. And I was a weird, stupid, nerdy kid. I read a book a week since I was 7 years old,” Black tells Inverse.
