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title: A Walk Among the Tombstones (film) text: a superhero (a sickle is visible on the hero's chest, a callback to TJ's sickle cell anemia). He sits down and falls asleep. A film adaptation of Block’s novel had been in development for several years with a script from Scott Frank. In 2002, Harrison Ford was attached to star and D. J. Caruso to direct. In May 2012, Liam Neeson had reportedly signed on to play Matthew Scudder in the film, with Frank himself directing, and production slated to begin February 2013. Filming began on March 3, 2013 in New York City. Producers invited author Block to the set title: A Walk Among the Tombstones (film) text: A Walk Among the Tombstones (film) A Walk Among the Tombstones is a 2014 American neo-noir crime film written and directed by Scott Frank, and based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Lawrence Block. It stars Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, David Harbour, Brian Bradley, and Boyd Holbrook. "A Walk Among the Tombstones" was released on September 19, 2014. Critical reception was mixed and the film grossed $62 million worldwide. In 1991, Detective Matthew "Matt" Scudder (Liam Neeson) is in a car with his partner, who urges him to get help and expresses his concern that Scudder is title: A Walk Among the Tombstones (film) text: body. Matt ultimately agrees to find the kidnappers. At the library, Matt researches similar killings, and finds victims named Marie Gotteskind and Leila Anderssen. He meets a homeless youth named TJ (Brian "Astro" Bradley), who helps with his search. Based on an article, Matt goes to a cemetery and speaks with the groundskeeper, Jonas Loogan (Olafur Darri Olafsson), who is upset that Matt forces him to remember finding bags containing parts of the dismembered Leila in the cemetery pond. Matt talks to Leila's fiancé Reuben (Mark Consuelos), who claims to have witnessed two men drag her into a van driven title: A Walk Among the Tombstones (film) text: opening scene, one of his stray bullets "took a bad hop" and killed a 7-year-old girl. He has been sober ever since. Kenny brings Matt to Landau's home, where the kidnappers call and arrange a drop. Matt, Kenny, Landau, Peter, and TJ (who earlier brought Matt his old gun) go to the cemetery. After a stand off, Lucia, with a finger hurt down to the bone, is returned to her father. When Albert realizes the ransom money is counterfeit, a shootout ensues. Peter is killed, and Matt wounds Ray. Albert and Ray escape in their van. After Albert and Ray title: A Walk Among the Tombstones (film) text: to watch filming. On the casting of Neeson, Block said, "Readers often ask who'd be my ideal Matt Scudder, and I usually change the subject. But now it's safe to tell you that, ever since I saw him in "Michael Collins", Neeson has been up at the top of my personal Scudder wish list. I couldn't be happier about either the star or the writer/director, both of them genuine artists and brilliant professionals. My book's in good hands." The film was completed on October 8, 2013 and classified by the MPAA as rated R for "strong violence, disturbing images, language,