Ive now read the book. My edition has a foreword by Elmore Leonard which reads:
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Friends of Eddie Coyle
bookrefuge — 15 years ago(February 25, 2011 04:35 PM)
Ive now read the book. My edition has a foreword by Elmore Leonard which reads:
Higginss agent at the time of Eddie Coyle read the manuscript, told him it was unsalable and dropped him.
How do you like that? Higgins ex-agent must have had plenty of regrets over losing the percentage he would have made if hed stuck with Higgins and Eddie Coyle!
(SPOILER) The book also cleared one up one loose end for me. After Dillon invites Coyle to the hockey game, he tells Coyle to come back to the bar at 6. It always occurred to me that Eddie very logically might call his wife Sheila and tell her, Hon, Ill be home late tonightDillon invited to me to a Bruins game. Had he had done that, Sheila could have told the cops Eddie had been with Dillon on the night of the shootingputting Dillon right on the hot seat. In the book, however, Dillon takes care of this. Eddie says hes going to call his wife, but Dillon tells him not to because we might run into something (girls). So Dillon covers this base. -
CrossCountryDriver — 15 years ago(March 01, 2011 07:41 PM)
hey book,
I'm glad you enjoyed reading Eddie Coyle. Its interesting to read it and see the movie and what they changed, added or kept the same. I dig the book but liked certain parts of the movie better. For instance, how they did the arrest of Jackie Brown - adding a mini car chase, gunfire and crash. And I agree about everything else you said.
I'm so glad they made this book into one of the coolest movies ever. It will always be of my all time favorites. I had no idea Higgins's agent at the time dropped him and told him the book was no good. wow! How wrong he was!
"This lifes hard man but its harder if you're stupid!" (Steven Keats as Jackie Brown) -
jpgiuliotti — 9 years ago(June 02, 2016 11:47 PM)
I interviewed Alex Rocco (played Jimmy Scalise) for a tribute project I did for the "Friends of Eddie Coyle" and asked him about the changes made from the book to the film. His answer is very, shall we say, "brief" :). He also makes mention of Peter Yates' choice for Helena Carol as Eddie's wife in the film. Here it is. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8171861DD8577ACA