Cosmic Banditos:
A Contrabandista's Quest for the Meaning of Life
by A. C. Weisbecker
"…my Favorite Book of All Time…"
"…an absurd, most amusing story that I will never forget…"
"The best book I’ve ever read!!!"
"Think Vonnegut at his best…"
"A truly amazing trip."
"We laughed hysterically from Omaha to St. Louis…"
"Filled with some of the most original humour ever seen in modern fiction."
"If Hunter S. Thompson were a nice guy and could write…"
"Don’t shuffle off this mortal coil without reading it."
"I laughed ‘till I was crying."
"So this is why I went to school to learn to read…"
"The most laughs I have ever had…"
"…the funniest, most intelligent book ever written on man’s struggles with himself, god, and various government agencies."
"I’ve never laughed so long or so loud…"
"…funniest (book) of the century…"
"...completely captivating…"
"I have to agree with all the other reviewers – one of the funniest books ever…"
"Fantastic book. A real treasure."
"…best short novel I ever read."
"All I can say is wow…"
"Banditos" has also been translated into Portugese, plus whatever language they speak in England.
Foreward to the new edition:
aweisbecker.com
Cosmic Banditos - The Movie??:
The following article appeared in the January 10 issue of Variety, the showbiz publication. Variations appeared in other Hollywood papers as well. And John Cusack echoed the story in interviews on various Entertainment TV shows.
John Cusack Makes Quantum Leap in New Movie
January 10, 2001 1:55 am EST
By Claude Brodesser
HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - John Cusack, last in theaters with "High Fidelity," has committed to star in and produce "Cosmic Banditos."
Based on the soon to be republished novel by A.C. Weisbecker, "Banditos" follows the adventures of some Colombian marijuana smugglers on the lam in the jungle -- one of them an American expatriate who would be played by Cusack. The tome will be republished in March by the New American Library trade imprint.
The book will be adapted for the screen by "Sid and Nancy" scribe Abbe Wool and Jimmy Fishman, the producer of 1999's "Desperate But Not Serious." "It's just really original," said Cusack, adding, "It deals with quantum mechanics in a gonzo, gung-ho sort of way."
The picture concerns what Fishman, a former solid-state physicist turned producer-screenwriter, calls a group of smugglers "whose chaotic and random lives are suddenly given meaning by the laws of subatomic physics." The expatriate has what Fishman calls "a quantum epiphany" about how their lives are governed by particles.
Cusack said he first became interested in physics while shooting the 1989 picture "Fat Man and Little Boy" in the New Mexico desert when he was 21. The film allowed him to spend time discussing the Manhattan Project and the Los Alamos labs with numerous physicists consulting on the picture. "Those first atomic physicists were real cowboys," he explained, "like mystics, only they dealt with numbers instead of language." The project will be developed by New York-based independent producer the Shooting Gallery.
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