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47-508: The events in the novel are set in between Point of Impact and Black Light , the first and second novels in the Bob Lee Swagger series. The opening chapters of Dirty White Boys articulately sets an impressionable tone for the remainder of the novel, as the story's main antagonist, Lamar Pye, a physically powerful, charismatic, aggressive, and intelligent " alpha male " in his late thirties, uses brutal violence to avoid being raped by

94-399: A "darker and a bit more brutal" story, writing it with an R rating in mind, but acknowledged the film's final tone would rest with the producers and director. In 2006, Benioff became interested in adapting George R.R. Martin 's novel series A Song of Ice and Fire , and began working with D.B. Weiss on a proposed television series, Game of Thrones . The pilot, " Winter Is Coming ",

141-464: A brutally abusive parent by Lamar, who has been looking after him ever since. Richard Peed - A terrified, but artistically gifted inmate. Lamar is pleased with the art he produces, and in return for drawing more pictures, Lamar protects him from the violence and rape that is prevalent in the prison. When Lamar escapes, Richard goes with him because he knows he would be doomed without his protection. Bud Pewtie - A courageous, but flawed police officer who

188-401: A concept for a feature film, but our experience on Thrones has convinced us that no one provides a bigger, better storytelling canvas than HBO." The announcement of Confederate met with public animosity and as of August 2019 (when Benioff's and Weiss's deal with Netflix was announced) is not moving forward. In February 2018, Disney announced that Benioff and Weiss would write and produce

235-674: A detective. A series of tips leads the troopers to the remote farmhouse of an old couple, where the Pyes and Richard have taken refuge, arming themselves with the old man's firearms. An ambush by the Pyes ensues, with Pewtie and Ted ducking for cover. While Pewtie performs distinctly well under fire of the Pyes, Ted caves under the pressure of the assault. As a result, Pewtie is severely wounded and left for dead by Lamar, and watches in horror as Lamar brutally executes his helpless partner. The Pyes escape but Pewtie survives having been unknowingly shot by Lamar with lightweight bird hunting shot. The Pyes flee to

282-563: A giant black inmate in the showers at McAlester State Penitentiary (the Mac). Despite his position as a "Prince" (a ranking prisoner) amongst the Dirty White Boys, a white gang element of the prisoner populace, the rape was ordered as revenge for a slight made by Lamar's developmentally disabled, behemoth cousin Odell against the white gang chief. After his sale to the black inmate gang, Lamar knows that

329-448: A new series of Star Wars films after the final season of Game of Thrones ended in 2019. Towards the end of the final season of Game of Thrones , a petition to HBO was started on Change.org . It called Benioff and Weiss "woefully incompetent writers" and demanded "competent writers" to remake the eighth season of Game of Thrones in a manner "that makes sense". The petition eventually amassed over 1.5 million signatures. In

376-423: A responsible father with two teenage boys, but it quickly emerges that he is having an affair with the young wife of his partner, Ted, a confused young man with unarticulated doubts about his role as a trooper. The troopers are briefed about the escape by the embittered alcoholic Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Lieutenant C. D. Henderson, a once star law enforcement officer who once served with Earl Swagger as

423-422: A screenplay of the mythological epic Troy (2004), for which Warner Bros. pictures paid him $ 2.5 million. He also wrote the script for the psychological thriller Stay (2005), directed by Marc Forster and starring Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts . His screenplay for The Kite Runner (2007), adapted from the novel of the same name, marked his second with Forster. Benioff was hired in 2004 to write

470-428: A series order for Shooter , a television series based on the novel and the 2007 film. An Indian Telugu language movie called Athadu starring Mahesh Babu directed by Trivikram Srinivas released in the year 2005 is loosely based on this. David Benioff David Friedman ( / ˈ f r iː d m ə n / ; born September 25, 1970), known professionally as David Benioff ( / ˈ b ɛ n i ɒ f / ),

517-506: A sniper. I'd read a biography of Carlos Hathcock, a Marine sniper. It's a very provocative book. It struck me that he was kind of the Faustian intellectual of war, in the sense that he learned things that no man ever learned, but at great cost. And the cost was his exile and his bitterness and his grief. Carlos Hathcock lost a spotter in Vietnam. So, I had Bob lose a spotter in Vietnam. Of course,

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564-433: A trailer and devotes himself to firearms. Here he is approached by representatives of RamDyne, a black-bag government organization whose personnel commit off-the-record atrocities as needed. The RamDyne people, masquerading as employees of Accutech, a high-end ammo manufacturer, enlist Bob's help. He detects their untruthfulness and confronts them, at which point they "reveal" to him their true motives: foiling an attempt on

611-410: A window using Holly as a shield while running across the fields towards a patch of trees with Pewtie chasing. Holly breaks away from Lamar and runs back towards the house leaving Bud to face Lamar. Bud again confirms to Holly that they are through. Lamar ambushes Bud in the patch of trees but fails to shoot him with his final bullet; the two men begin a desperate hand-to-hand struggle for Bud's gun, which

658-553: A year—mostly as a side job that he accepted mainly to spend a year in the countryside at a writer's retreat. He then applied to join the University of California, Irvine 's creative writing program after reading The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon (an alumnus there), and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing there in 1999. In 2001, People magazine included Benioff on its list of America's Top 50 Most Eligible Bachelors. As an adult, he began using

705-521: Is an American writer and producer. Along with his collaborator D. B. Weiss , he is best known for co-creating Game of Thrones (2011–2019), the HBO adaptation of George R. R. Martin 's series of books A Song of Ice and Fire . He also wrote 25th Hour (2002), Troy (2004), City of Thieves (2008) and co-wrote X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009). Benioff was born David Friedman in New York City ,

752-420: Is depicted as the misshapen product of a violent, impoverished upbringing with the strong suggestion that under different circumstances he may have been a better man. Lamar is motivated by his contempt for the seemingly arbitrary rules of normal society, his desire to protect his retarded cousin Odell, his own love of danger and his violent tendencies. Odell Pye - A deformed and mentally disabled man, rescued from

799-487: Is loosely based upon the real Vietnam War sniper and U.S. Marine Corps legend Carlos Hathcock . Bob "The Nailer" becomes involved in a plot by dirty big-government types. The story is about how he is first approached and used by them, and their subsequent attempts to end his life. Disenchanted with warfare when invalided out of the U.S. Marine Corps in the 1970s, Bob retreats to a small town in Arkansas , where he lives in

846-528: Is not the only man that Lon Scott has set up, and that Lon Scott actually shot JFK on November 22, 1963, rather than Lee Harvey Oswald. In 2013, Hunter followed up on these hinted at threads and completed the tale in The Third Bullet . In the 2007 film adaptation DVD special features short titled "Survival of the Fittest: The Making of Shooter ", the author states I wanted to write a novel about

893-455: Is once again badly injured and Lamar escapes after the intervention of Richard and Ruta. As Bud struggles with his choices Lamar plots a terrible revenge for the death of his cousin. The stage is set for the final confrontation between Pewtie and Lamar. Pewtie fails at first to shoot Lamar with a rifle, his bullet deflected just enough by an unseen glass door to miss his intended target and wound Ruta. The firefight leads to Lamar breaking out of

940-480: Is severely injured but lives as Henderson dies. The final scene is of a recovered Richard (having been shot by other policemen after firing) being transferred back to "the Mac" where he finds his previous fear of the prison and its brutal inmates is gone and he is a feared member of the criminal community. Lamar Pye - A physically powerful, ultra-aggressive career criminal with high intelligence and considerable charisma. Lamar

987-535: Is tasked with tracking the three escapees down. He is shot and nearly killed by Lamar, but recovers. In 2014, Fox commissioned David Benioff and D. B. Weiss to write, direct and produce a feature film adaptation of Dirty White Boys. Point of Impact (Stephen Hunter novel) Point of Impact is a 1993 thriller novel by Stephen Hunter . Point of Impact revolves around a former Vietnam War sniper named Bob Lee Swagger or Bob "the Nailer". This character

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1034-446: Is working on a tattoo, and obtains information about Jimmy Ky. The stage is now set for the second bloody confrontation between Pewtie and Lamar. Pewtie literally stumbles in as Lamar is being tattooed and watched over by Odell. A gunfight ensues which ends with Pewtie killing Odell in a gun battle that only ends after Bud expends all his ammunition from his 3 handguns into Odell and blasting two fingers off Lamar's left hand. Pewtie himself

1081-615: The Chicago Sun Times , Richard Roeper wrote that the backlash to the eighth season was so great that he doubted he had "ever seen the level of fan (and to a lesser degree, critical) vitriol leveled at" Game of Thrones . In early August 2019, Benioff and Weiss negotiated an exclusive multi-year film and television deal with Netflix worth $ 200 million. Due to their commitments to Netflix, Benioff and Weiss exited their contract to produce Star Wars films for Disney and Lucasfilm . Benioff's and Weiss's first project on Netflix

1128-672: The U.N. headquarters when he was 16. Benioff is an alumnus of Collegiate School and Dartmouth College . At Dartmouth he was a member of Phi Delta Alpha fraternity and the Sphinx Senior Society . After graduating in 1992 with a B.A in English Literature, he had a number of jobs: for a time as a club bouncer in San Francisco , and as a high school English teacher at Poly Prep in Brooklyn for two years, where he served as

1175-441: The pen name Jacqueline Benioff when his first novel was published in 2001. Benioff is his mother's maiden name . He explained that he did this to avoid confusion with other writers named David Friedman. For legal purposes, his copyright filings from the 2010s onward list him as "David Benioff Friedman". Benioff spent two years writing his first published novel, The 25th Hour , originally titled Fireman Down , and completed

1222-530: The Accutech shooting range to Lon's father, Art Scott. Art received the .300 H&H, referred to as "The Tenth Black King", as a gift for his shooting for Winchester. In a tragic twist of fate, Art accidentally shot his son, crippling Lon from the waist down. He then proceeded to take his own life, with the same rifle. Bob hunts through some old files, and with Nick Memphis' help manages to track Lon to his home. Bob and Memphis are then ambushed, but escape. Much later in

1269-483: The book as his thesis for his master's degree at Irvine. He was asked to adapt the book into a screenplay after Tobey Maguire read a preliminary trade copy and became interested in making a film of the book. The film adaptation, 25th Hour , starring Edward Norton , was directed by Spike Lee . In 2004 Benioff published a collection of short stories, When the Nines Roll Over (And Other Stories) . He drafted

1316-469: The book details how he escapes the frame, wins absolution for the crime of which he was accused and wins the love of a woman. As the story progresses, the reader is introduced to the actual shooter who took the shot at the Salvadoran Archbishop: one Lon Scott. Lon is a crippled man, who was once a great competition benchrest shooter. Bob tracks Lon by tracing the .300 H&H Swagger is given at

1363-487: The conflicting demands of his newfound romance and his family life continue to build. Lamar and his "family" carry out a bloody robbery of a Denny's restaurant in Wichita Falls, Texas , from which Lamar narrowly escapes with his life. The bloodshed of the robbery intensifies the manhunt for Lamar and Pewtie is one of the officers who drops by the scene of the crime. There he finds more pictures of lions drawn by Richard at

1410-507: The credit on the show. Benioff was given the credit for season 3 episode 3, " Walk of Punishment ", while Weiss was credited with season 4 episode 1, " Two Swords ". They co-directed the series finale, " The Iron Throne ". In October 2007, Universal Pictures hired Benioff to write an adapted screenplay of the Charles R. Cross biography of Kurt Cobain , but the screenplay was not used. In 2008, Benioff's second novel, City of Thieves ,

1457-436: The film not only began slow but stopped altogether. According to Kasey Moore, it has been years since anyone once known to be involved with Dirty White Boys , has given an update on the project's status. In July 2017, Benioff announced that he and Weiss would produce another HBO series, Confederate , after the final season of Game of Thrones . Benioff and Weiss said, "We have discussed Confederate for years, originally as

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1504-521: The life of the President of the United States at the hand of the same Soviet sniper who ended Bob's military career. Bob agrees to work for them but in the end, is framed into the crime of attempted assassination. He escapes the frame and finds himself friendless, pursued by every law enforcement agency in the country, pursued by RamDyne, and suffering two nearly fatal bullet wounds. The major portion of

1551-403: The movie has been updated, so Vietnam hasn't figured in it. But there's still - I love that the sniper is a man of grief, with something that I don't think anybody had ever gotten before. A film adaptation of the novel was produced by Paramount Pictures in 2006, titled Shooter , starring Mark Wahlberg as Bob Lee Swagger. It was released on March 23, 2007. In January 2016, USA Network gave

1598-498: The novel, Lon makes another appearance as Colonel Shreck tries to set Bob up in Hard Bargain Valley, near the end of the book. Nick Memphis ends up taking a thousand yard shot at Lon, subsequently killing him. Bob then goes through legal proceedings, and embarrasses the United States government. The careful reader will then notice, during a description of the distribution of Lon's possessions in accordance with his will, that there

1645-406: The physically stronger Lamar is sure to win. As the men fight, Pewtie desperately manages to fire a shot, which hideously wounds Lamar. The fight finishes as Bud uses his back-up gun to shoot Lamar twice in the head. As the medics and SWAT teams arrive all seems to be settled, but Richard is still alive and decides he should help Lamar. He finds Bud near a creek with the just-arrived Henderson. Both of

1692-450: The policemen talk quietly to Richard, trying to convince him to drop his gun and telling him that they know he was not responsible for the crimes committed by the Pyes. Richard responds by firing at Bud with the gun that Lamar took from Pewtie after their first confrontation at the old couples' farmhouse. Henderson moves in front of Bud and takes the brunt of the bullet's damage, though the bullet hits Pewtie after going through Henderson. Bud

1739-401: The remote house of a mentally ill young woman, Ruta Beth Tull, who has been writing confused letters to Richard about their "mystic connection". Tull, it later emerges, murdered her own parents as a juvenile and sees this as her link to Richard. Tull immediately takes to Lamar and the group forms into a twisted family unit as the search for them loses momentum. Pewtie returns to the house where he

1786-434: The restaurant. He is questioned by a suspicious Henderson about his find, but does not explain it or the earlier pictures. Lamar now reveals to his family that Richard has in fact been working on the design for a tattoo and they begin a search for a top quality tattoo artist to carry out the work and finding Jimmy Ky outside a small town. After discussing the drawings with a local art teacher Bud also begins to suspect that Lamar

1833-423: The revenge is inevitable if he remains in the prison. Richard, Lamar's failed artist cell mate, a timid man imprisoned for gruesomely blinding his own mother, joins Lamar as he uses his quick wit and unrestrained capacity for violence to abscond "the Mac" with Odell. Bud Pewtie, the novel's main protagonist, is a State Trooper called to participate in the search for the escaped criminals. He is initially portrayed as

1880-457: The school's wrestling coach. Benioff became interested in an academic career and went to Trinity College, Dublin (TCD), in 1995, for a one-year program to study Irish literature. In Dublin he met D. B. Weiss , who later became his collaborator. Benioff wrote a thesis on Samuel Beckett at Trinity College, but decided against a career in academia. He worked as a radio DJ in Moose, Wyoming , for

1927-536: The screenplay for the X-Men spin-off X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009). He based his script on Barry Windsor-Smith 's " Weapon X " story, Chris Claremont and Frank Miller 's 1982 limited series on the character , as well as the 2001 limited series Origin . Hugh Jackman collaborated on the script, which he wanted to be more of a character piece than the previous X-Men films. Fox later hired Skip Woods to revise and rewrite Benioff's script. Benioff had aimed for

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1974-581: The youngest of three children in a Jewish family with ancestral roots in Austria, Romania, Germany, Poland and Russia. He is the son of Barbara (née Benioff) and Stephen Friedman , a former head of Goldman Sachs . He has two older sisters, Suzy and Caroline, and grew up in Manhattan , first in Peter Cooper Village , then on 86th Street where he spent most of his childhood, before eventually moving near

2021-453: Was ambushed to thank the owner, who also survived being kidnapped by Lamar and raised the alarm about the shootout. While at the house he is given pictures of lions drawn by Richard, and overlooked by investigators, as Richard's value to Lamar rests on his ability to draw pictures as Lamar orders him to; Lamar being amused and intrigued by the artist's ability. Pewtie also returns to his affair with his dead partner's wife Holly and frustrations at

2068-460: Was found a "curious collection of fired 162-grain .264-caliber bullets from some bizarre project or other in the early sixties, found in his safe deposit box. After some research, it can be learned that this is an allusion to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, in 1963. The rifle that supposedly fired the bullet that killed Kennedy was alleged to be a Carcano rifle, firing a 162 grain bullet, in 6.5 mm. It can thus be inferred that Bob Lee Swagger

2115-451: Was published. In April 2014, Benioff announced he and Weiss had taken on their first feature film project to write, produce, and direct Dirty White Boys , based on a novel by Stephen Hunter . 21st Century Fox greenlit pre-production on the movie even though at the time, both producers had significant contractual obligations for other projects. Though it was assumed development on Dirty White Boys would proceed slowly, promotion for

2162-417: Was put into development by HBO in 2007 and the series greenlit in 2010. Benioff and Weiss acted as the show's executive producers, showrunners , and writers. It began airing on HBO in 2011. Benioff and Weiss had previously worked together on a script for a horror film titled The Headmaster , but it was never made. They also directed three episodes of Game of Thrones , flipping a coin to decide who would get

2209-480: Was to direct the stand-up comedy special Leslie Jones : Time Machine . In September 2020, it was announced that Benioff, Weiss and Alexander Woo will write and executive produce a Netflix series based on The Three-Body Problem trilogy. On September 30, 2006, Benioff married actress Amanda Peet in a traditional Jewish ceremony in New York City . They have three children. The family divides their time between homes in Manhattan and Beverly Hills . He

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