Pulp lives

Shane Black will not be the last filmmaker to make a movie based on books by Donald E Westlake (1933-2008):

Westlake [as Richard Stark], who created the Parker character, started in the '60s, and he continued writing the character all the way through to his death in 2008. So each generation seemed to have a Parker movie for them. There was Lee Marvin's Point Blank, and he was indelibly stamped in that 1967 production. There was a progression from Robert Duvall's The Outfit in 1973 to Mel Gibson's Payback in 1999. Each new movie that came out was slightly more modern, and so rather than go back in time and try to capture the vintage Parker, our job was to now do our version for this generation.