suicide, mental illness, murder, government, political corruption and the criminal justice system. A popular speaker, she has appeared more than 250 times on TV, radio, and podcasts as a crime expert. After teaching writing workshops for more than 10 years, she now coaches a limited number of authors. In her spare time, she enjoys ocean swimming, and sings and plays keyboards with In the Lounge, a jazzy, bluesy trio.
Here Rother dreamcasts an adaptation of her new novel, Hooked:
I started writing Hooked almost 20 years ago, when I was younger, and so were the actors and actresses that could be cast to play my two lead characters--investigative reporter Katrina Chopin and surfing homicide detective Ken Goode.Visit Caitlin Rother's website.
The book opens with the two characters meeting at a bar in La Jolla, being immediately drawn to each other not just because they are both attractive, but because they start talking about trauma and tragedy they both share from their past. Goode gets called away to respond to a death scene before Katrina gets a chance to tell him she's a reporter, so when he sees her again the next morning after the news conference, he is disappointed to find out that she is a reporter covering his suspicious death case, because now it means they can't date. It also means that they will be competing professionally to solve the case from either side of a very bright line that separates reporters and their sources. So when I write my first drafts of this book, I would have cast Ryan Gosling as Ken Goode, because he's good at playing smart and sarcastic, and he's tall and athletic, and he was even cast as Ken in Barbie many years after I thought about him for this part in my movie. So apparently others saw him that way too. However, I think he's a bit too old now to play this character, who is 37, so the closest I could come is Glen Powell, for all the same reasons. Although he usually stars in rom-coms, and doesn't play brooding characters, perhaps he could stretch a little. If not, I'm open to suggestions. Bottom line, he's got to be smart and witty and sexy.
I would also suggest Natalie Portman to play Katrina Chopin, because she, too, is good at playing smart, tough, and sarcastic, because I think she's probably both of those in real life. Plus, she's very pretty. She's been cast as a reporter in several roles already, so again, Hollywood agrees with me. On a side note, I see myself in some of her characters, so I actually had suggested casting her to play me recently when we were discussing a dramatized limited series based on another one of my books, Death on Ocean Boulevard (which was optioned by Untitled Entertainment at the time), in which I would have possibly appeared as a character.
--Marshal Zeringue
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