# Velocity by Dean Koontz-Movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 12, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/velocity-by-dean-koontz-movie/782030 "2017-03-12T21:56:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CHealy7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ab097/32.png) [@CHealy7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CHealy7)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/velocity-by-dean-koontz-movie/782030/1 "2017-03-12T21:56:43Z")
Has anyone else read this book? If they make a movie of it, the character Ralph Cottle has to be played by Harry Dean Stanton. Is Harry Dean Stanton alive? Do you know who I mean–Harry Dean Stanton? Does anyone have any information? I’d really like to know. Will there be a movie? With Harry Dean Stanton? ---
**Author:** ![CHealy7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ab097/32.png) [@CHealy7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CHealy7)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2017, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/velocity-by-dean-koontz-movie/782030/2 "2017-03-13T23:59:03Z")
Does anyone know? Will there be a “Velocity” movie? With Harry Dean Stanton? ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/velocity-by-dean-koontz-movie/782030/3 "2017-03-14T02:41:53Z")
If you want to know if someone is alive, you Google on the terms “Wikipedia” and their name. Doing that, I find that Harry Dean Stanton is alive. He will appear in at least one new movie and TV episode this year: > **[Harry Dean Stanton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Dean_Stanton)** > > Harry Dean Stanton (July 14, 1926 – September 15, 2017) was an American actor, musician, and singer. > In a career that spanned more than six decades, Stanton played supporting roles in films including Cool Hand Luke (1967), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Dillinger (1973), The Godfather Part II (1974), Alien (1979), Escape from New York (1981), Christine (1983), Repo Man (1984), One Magic Christmas (1985), Pretty in Pink (1986), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Wild at Heart (1990), The Straight St There’s no mention of a movie of _Velocity_ in the Wikipedia entry: > **[Velocity (novel)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_(novel))** > > Velocity is a novel by Dean Koontz first published in 2005. Set in Napa County, California, it is about a man in his thirties who takes the law into his own hands when, out of the blue, he is threatened by an anonymous adversary. The "words of wisdom" with which the novel is interspersed are direct quotations from the writings of T. S. Eliot. > Not so long ago a promising young short story writer, Billy Wiles has not even turned on his PC since his fiancée Barbara fell into a coma several years ag... ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/velocity-by-dean-koontz-movie/782030/4 "2017-03-14T03:33:24Z")
No _Velocity_ but IMDB reports there are some other Dean Koontz movies in development: _The Husband_, an adaptation of his 2006 novel, a film based on Koontz’s _Frankenstein_ series and finally, believe it or not, _Trixie_, a movie centered on his dog! I don’t think Stanton is being considered for that part though. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/velocity-by-dean-koontz-movie/782030/5 "2017-03-15T18:58:00Z")
_Velocity_ was too derivative of his earlier work, _Position_. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/velocity-by-dean-koontz-movie/782030/6 "2017-03-15T19:20:27Z")
Isn’t all of his work self-derivative? I can never remember the titles of the ones I’ve read because they’re all the same…plucky young heroine, haunted hero, on the run from faceless evil. Oh, and there’s always a golden retriever. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/velocity-by-dean-koontz-movie/782030/7 "2017-03-15T19:43:50Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Isn’t all of his work self-derivative? I can never remember the titles of the ones I’ve read because they’re all the same…plucky young heroine, haunted hero, on the run from faceless evil. Oh, and there’s always a golden retriever. Yes, and his _Acceleration_ was even _more_ derivative, if you can believe it. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/velocity-by-dean-koontz-movie/782030/8 "2017-03-15T19:48:15Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Isn’t all of his work self-derivative? I can never remember the titles of the ones I’ve read because they’re all the same…plucky young heroine, haunted hero, on the run from faceless evil. Oh, and there’s always a golden retriever. Agreed 100%; Read one and you’ve read them all. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/velocity-by-dean-koontz-movie/782030/9 "2017-03-15T20:45:28Z")
I did like the one with the sentient golden retriever. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/velocity-by-dean-koontz-movie/782030/10 "2017-03-17T03:05:48Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > _Velocity_ was too derivative of his earlier work, _Position_. Don’t worry - I got the joke. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/velocity-by-dean-koontz-movie/782030/11 "2017-03-17T03:18:41Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > _Velocity_ was too derivative of his earlier work, _Position_. I don’t honestly see how it’s possible for you to be familiar with both of these books at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/velocity-by-dean-koontz-movie/782030/12 "2017-03-17T03:26:34Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > _Velocity_ was too derivative of his earlier work, _Position_. But, _Velocity_ was integral to his development of his latest work _Distance_. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/velocity-by-dean-koontz-movie/782030/13 "2017-03-17T03:46:54Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > I did like the one with the sentient golden retriever. _Watchers_, I liked it too! _Phantoms_ was okay, and _Lightning_. But he is also the only author that I literally threw one of his books across the room in disgust. ---
**Author:** ![CHealy7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ab097/32.png) [@CHealy7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CHealy7)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2017, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/velocity-by-dean-koontz-movie/782030/14 "2017-09-19T16:56:13Z")
> [@CHealy7](#): > > Has anyone else read this book? If they make a movie of it, the character Ralph Cottle has to be played by Harry Dean Stanton. Is Harry Dean Stanton alive? Do you know who I mean–Harry Dean Stanton? Does anyone have any information? I’d really like to know. Will there be a movie? With Harry Dean Stanton? Looks like the dream has died ☹ ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2017, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/velocity-by-dean-koontz-movie/782030/15 "2017-09-20T00:44:20Z")
Aww, man. When are they ever going to adapt either of my favorites, The Face or The Taking?