The Warriors: The Gang Odyssey That Became a Comic Book

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Walter Hill’s The Warriors (1979) has one of the great high-concept engines in genre cinema, and it is over two thousand years old. A small band, stranded deep in hostile country, has to fight its way home through a gauntlet of enemies who all want it dead. That is the plot of Xenophon’s Anabasis, the account of ten thousand Greek mercenaries marching to the sea through Persia, and Sol Yurick knew exactly what he was doing when he transplanted it into the gang wars of 1960s New York for his 1965 novel. Hill knew it too, and he pushed the material one crucial step further, turning a grimy urban thriller into something closer to myth.

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The Warriors: The Gang Odyssey That Became a Comic Book