All of the bad guys books7/8/2023 ![]() With his success, Blabey is finally getting LA’s red carpet treatment as an author, that he could only dream about getting as an actor. ![]() ![]() He sounds genuinely awestruck as he recalls seeing Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs for the first time, in a Melbourne cinema when he was 18. ![]() That space in the middle is where the right balance is.”īlabey has never met Tarantino, whose influence casts a noirish shadow (refracted through a gentle lens) over the film and the books, but Tarantino is “one of the five people in the world, if I met him, I think I’d have a heart attack,” he says. ![]() I just started to think about the stuff I loved as kid.” He wondered if he could “hot wire” books, incorporating “iconography, like Tarantino’s films, that’s not suitable to kids, but not neuter it, do it in such in a way that you leave out the bits that are too scary or too full on.” He has a formula he follows for every book: “On my wall I have written ‘smart/dumb’ and ‘scary/funny’. The original inspiration for the series came from Blabey’s then six-year-old son, who was bringing home “these unforgivably boring readers. ![]()
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