Carl Hiaasen on “Bad Monkey” becoming a TV series
Asked to describe himself – A crank? A crusader? – novelist Carl Hiaasen replied, “Cranky? Maybe not a crank. No, I think when you write satire, which is what I do, satire always comes from a place of anger, a sense of injustice about things. Satire has a target.”
The cranky, crusading Carl Hiaasen has channeled that anger into more than 30 books. And now, one of his snarkiest satires, his 2013 novel “Bad Monkey,” has been turned into a series on Apple TV+
“Sunday Morning” caught up with the 71-year-old Hiaasen in the Florida Keys, where “Bad Monkey” was being filmed. “It’s a little surreal,” he said on location, ” ’cause you’re sitting in a room all by yourself and write it, alone. And you come here and they have, like, 105 people on the set.”
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One of those 105 is actor Vince Vaughn, who plays the good guy in “Bad Monkey,” police detective Andrew Yancy. Yancy lives in a little bungalow, while an ugly yellow mansion is being built next door, blocking his view. “It takes away the sunset, everything,” Hiaasen said. “And that’s all he lives for.”
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Whatever genre Carl Hiaasen is working in, you can always expect a funny ending.
“I got a letter one time from a reader who said, ‘I love your books about Florida. And I’m moving there anyway!'” he laughed.
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