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All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by John Herzfeld

John Herzfeld is known for adapting The Death and Life of Bobby Z, the book by Don Winslow published in 2014, for cinema.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the movie is better.
Cobra. Poster of the 1986 movie and cover of the 1978 book, Fair Game (A Running Duck)
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Fair Game (A Running Duck)
Paula Gosling, 1978
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Cobra
George P. Cosmatos, 1986

An armed gunman causes a hostage crisis at a Los Angeles supermarket. Cobretti (Cobra) infiltrates the store, locates, and negotiates with the gunman, who threatens him by speaking of a vague and unknown organization known as ‘The New World’, a supremacist group of social darwinist radicals that despise modern society and believe in killing the weak, leaving only the strongest and smartest to rule the world.

Bobby Z. Poster of the 2007 movie and cover of the 1997 book, The Death and Life of Bobby Z
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The Death and Life of Bobby Z
Don Winslow, 1997
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Bobby Z
John Herzfeld, 2007

Branded for demise by a motorcycle gang, Tim Kearney, a former Marine and convict, finds himself presented with a final opportunity to escape the clutches of incarceration. A cunning DEA agent seeks someone to assume the role of the recently deceased drug lord, Bobby Z. Coincidentally, Tim bears a striking resemblance to the fallen criminal, leading to a risky proposition.