

Hiaasen is himself an accomplished juggler of plot lines. Stormy Weather would be terrific reading during a hurricane, taking your mind off all those oak trees doing the wave outside your window. Even while provoking gales of laughter, it takes dead-aim at despoilers of the environment and the greed-mongers out to make a buck off devastation and destruction. “Another fiercely funny tale in the Hiaasen cannon. Few writers in the overcrowded crime fiction arena can match Hiaasen’s deft, economical portraits, his ability to click the shutter on a character’s most revealing moments.” - Newsday What you can't anticipate is how much fun there's to be had getting here to there.” - New York Daily News If only you could buy a ticket to Hiaasen's Florida. “Raucous, scathing but never mean-spirited, Stormy Weather goes a long way toward securing Hiaasen's place as America's premier satirist.” - People Everybody gets his just desserts, and you get the delight of reading about it.” - Cosmopolitan A great read.” - The Washington Post Book World “ mordantly hilarious, black-humor thriller.” - The Wall Street Journal

Hiaasen at his satirical best.” - USA Today TV and start mid next year.“Hysterically funny. “Production is starting to ramp up and look for locations.

“A show like this would be really great for the Keys,” said Florida Keys film commissioner Chad Newman, who confirmed that the production company has been in touch with him. The showrunner? Bill Lawrence, who just swept the Emmys with the series “Ted Lasso” and created the sitcom “Scrubs.” Per the Hollywood Reporter, the production has been ordered by Apple and is based on the 2013 Carl Hiaasen novel “Bad Monkey.” The series will be 10 episodes to start and executive produced and starring Vince Vaughn of “Wedding Crashers” fame. KEYS WEEKLY FILE PHOTOĪ prestige series with major Hollywood players is set to film in the Keys in 2022. The “Bad Monkey” 10-episode production may be shooting in and around the Keys for four to five months in 2022. Many locals remember when the cast and crew of the Netflix series “Bloodline” was seen in the Keys, as in this photo, for months at a time, before and after its premiere in 2015.
