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The Strokes Have a Writer in the Band
Posted in Debut Album, Music, Music People, New LP, Singers, Solo, Song on the June 5, 2007
Albert Hammond Jr., guitarist of band The Strokes, is all set up to write a screenplay. The band will take a year off entertainment but this member (who already launched a debut solo album called “Yours to Keep”) will not take it easy. His writing effort is a set play adapted after “Pulp” by Charles Bukowski. It is a book that revolves around a private investigator and is characterized by Albert Hammond Jr. as “an adult comedy-dark”.
The guitarist got the thumbs up from the author’s widow and everything should be finalized after a studio is contracted. Other details have not been released. The only thing that is known is what he told press:
“I wouldn’t want someone to ruin my script. I don’t think they’d let me direct but I’d want to be somewhere in the picture like that.”
Maybe we will see him as a director, who knows? I read the book and it is pretty interesting. I just hope the screenplay will be good as well.