The film, which will be released next year and is being written and directed by Scott Frank, is based on a Matt Scudder crime novel by Lawrence Block.

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The hero of 15 books by Lawrence Block, Scudder is a winningly smart-assed private eye who can shoot the breeze (and the bad guys) with the best of them, and has a capacity for abstract thought to boot.

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Both seem poised at the starting block of promising careers Dunham with Girls and Lawrence leading the cast of the successful Hunger Games franchise.

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