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Pretty Boy Floyd Film Has Robbed A Director

Pretty Boy Floyd Film Has Robbed A Director

Writer-director Wayne Kramer has signed on to helm the crime thriller “Pretty Boy Floyd" for Myriad Pictures.

Kevin Bernhardt wrote the screenplay based on the notorious gangster and bank robber, whose full name was Charles Arthur Floyd. “Pretty Boy” committed numerous robberies and other crimes around Kansas City and the Midwest in the late ’20s and ’30s -- obtaining the populist nickname “The Robin Hood of the Cookson Hills” along the way -- before his death in 1934 at age 30.

“My approach is to bring 21st century style and energy to Kevin Bernhardt’s meticulously researched screenplay without sacrificing the verisimilitude of the period or over-sensationalizing the characters themselves,” says Kramer. “At the heart of ‘Pretty Boy Floyd’ is a great love story about an outlaw on the run who can’t stay away from the woman he loves, no matter how destructive the relationship is for both of them -- which ultimately leads to his demise.”

That would be Ruby Hardgrave, whom he married in 1924 before turning to crime in the grit of the Depression.

Floyd posthumously went on to become something of a folk legend, especially after Woody Guthrie lionized him in “The Ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd” in 1939. The song was covered often in the folk music world, and the Flattop villain in the Dick Tracy comics was based on Floyd.

On film, the outlaw was portrayed in the 1960 film “Pretty Boy Floyd” and 10 years later in “A Bullet for Pretty Boy.” Martin Sheen played him in a 1974 TV movie, and Channing Tatum portrayed Floyd in Michael Mann’s “Public Enemies” last year opposite Johnny Depp as John Dillinger.


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