BREAKING NEWS: Yesterday Luciana announced on Facebook that she has a role in the made for TV movie Deck the Halls, a crime drama set during Christmas time based on the mystery novel of the same name by Mary Higgins Clark and her daughter Carol Higgins?Clark.
The movie will be one of TNT networks ?TNT Tuesday Night Mystery? movies, a series of six (unrelated) contemporary crime dramas that include both fictional and true-crime stories.
The press release for the movie from The Futon Critic:
Adapted from the first book in Mary Higgins Clark and daughter Carol Higgins Clark?s series of holiday mystery novels, this warm-hearted story brings together two of the authors? most popular characters: Detective Regan Reilly and cleaning-woman-turned-private-eye Alvirah Meegan. The women investigate the kidnapping of Regan?s father and a young female driver just before the holidays. The race is on to rescue the pair and get them home in time for Christmas. Howard Burkons (John Q, TNT?s The Ron Clark Story) is set to write the script. He will executive-produce with Brenda Friend (Joan of Arc, The Ron Clark Story)
The novel this movie is based on is of course available from Amazon.com (and probably wherever you get your books from).
Deck the Halls book cover
While almost nothing is known about the movie yet, there are of course enough reviews of the book.
Here is what booklist thinks about it:
It?s Christmas time, but C. B. Dingle has no Christmas spirit. His departed Uncle Goodloe left his fortune to the Sod, Plant, Bloom, and Blossom Society, and Dingle is distraught. He?s so upset, in fact, that he?s bent on revenge. The plan is to kidnap Luke Reilly, owner of the funeral home that set dear old Uncle on the garden path. But Dingle?s partner, Petey, accidentally drops the ransom in the drink (the East River, to be exact), which gives the assorted investigative types?including Reilly?s daughter, the PI star of several Carol Higgins Clark novels, and Alvirah Meehan, the amateur detective featured in a few Mary Higgins Clark books?a second chance to find dear Dad, which they do just in time. Happy Christmas to all. This first collaboration by the mother-daughter team is a lightweight bit of fluff that readers will speed through in no time. The writing styles mesh seamlessly, but the goofy goings-on and the coincidences (a detective name Jack Reilly?no relation!) add a layer of comedy that isn?t quite in tune with the suspense, leaving readers to wonder if it?s all supposed to be a big joke. No matter. Clark, the prolific mom, and Clark, the daughter, who now has several books to her credit, have enough loyal fans between them to gather a hefty readership, even if the product is a bit thin.
And Publishers Weekly writes:
On her own, each Clark has written reliably entertaining mystery/thrillers that occasionally exhibit storytelling magic. The authors? first collaborationDwhich also sees a collaboration by their respective publishers, as well as the teaming of two of their best-known sleuthsDis only middling, however, though it will please their many fans. Three days before Christmas, Luke Reilly, who owns a string of funeral homes, and his young female driver, Rosita Gonzalez, are kidnapped for ransom. Luke is the husband of Nora Regan Reilly, a bestselling mystery writer based somewhat on Mary Higgins Clark; both are parents to Regan Reilly, Carol Higgins Clark?s series detective (Twanged, etc.). Regan gets on the case at once, but she doesn?t make much headway until she pairs up with Alvirah Meegan, the cleaning woman who turned private eye after winning a $40-million lottery in Mary Higgins Clark?s Weep No More My Lady. (Here, Regan and Alvirah make each other?s acquaintance at a dentist?s office.) Meanwhile, Luke and Rosita remain chained on a small boat offshore from New Jersey as their two bumbling kidnappers plan, execute and bobble a ransom run. The boat starts to sink. Will Luke and Rosita drown? There?s probably not a reader alive who thinks they will, and it?ll surprise no one when Regan and Alvirah trip over clues as big as Christmas trees to save the day. But if the novel generates little suspense, it does go down like roasted chestnuts, and fans will greatly enjoy the pairing of two favorite detectives and two popular writers in a lightweight but amiably lighthearted Christmas ornament of a book.
So far, we don?t know which character Luciana will play. But considering she was sometimes cast for Latin roles because of her looks, it is very well possible she may play the role of Rosita Gonzalez, the driver who was kidnapped. That is of course, if the movie adaption stays close to the novel and doesn?t change any of the characters.
Needless to say, we will update you as new information about this project is released.
And last but not least: Congratulations to Luciana for booking that role!
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Source: http://lucianacarrofans.com/2011/07/03/deck-the-halls/
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