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Eyes of Laura Mars is a 1978 thriller film starring Faye Dunaway and Tommy Lee Jones and directed by Irvin Kershner. The screenplay was adapted (in collaboration with David Zelag Goodman) from a spec script titled Eyes, written by John Carpenter, and would become Carpenter’s first major studio film of his career. The late H. B. Gilmour would later write the novelization, one of at least six that marked her literary career. Producer Jon Peters, who was dating Barbra Streisand at the time, bought the screenplay as a starring vehicle for the actress, but Streisand eventually decided not to take the role because of “the kinky nature of the story,“ as Peters later explained. As a result, the role went to Dunaway, who had just won an Oscar for her performance in Network. Streisand... Read on...