{"id":131,"date":"2025-10-07T23:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T23:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=131"},"modified":"2025-10-07T23:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T23:20:18","slug":"play-dirty-robert-downey-jr-almost-starred-in-the-shane-black-film-instead-of-mark-wahlberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"Play Dirty: Robert Downey Jr. Almost Starred In The Shane Black Film Instead Of Mark Wahlberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/db\/movie\/play-dirty-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Play Dirty<\/strong><\/em><\/a> didn&#8217;t initially cast Mark Wahlberg as Parker, and the original idea might have resulted in a better film. Directed by Shane Black, <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/video\/play-dirty-movie-parker-adaptation-different-shane-black-jules-daly-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Play Dirty<\/em> is the latest cinematic adaptation of the Parker character<\/a>. Created by Donald E. Westlake (under the pen name of Richard Stark), Parker is an iconic subversion of the typical crime literature anti-hero.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play Dirty didn&#8217;t initially cast Mark Wahlberg as Parker, and the original idea might have resulted in a better film. Directed by Shane Black, Play Dirty is the latest cinematic adaptation of the Parker character. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}