Question: A Simple Plan was a thriller novel that led to a film starring whom?

Context articles: Scott Smith (author)
The Morgan Waters Show
A Simple Favor
The Real Cancun (original soundtrack)
Don't Wanna Think About You
A Simple Plan (film)
The Ruins (novel)
Paula Hawkins (author)
A Simple Plan (novel)
Can't Keep My Hands off You

Scott Bechtel Smith (born July 13, 1965) is an American author and screenwriter, who has published two novels, "A Simple Plan" and "The Ruins".
 His screen adaptation of "A Simple Plan" earned him an Academy Award nomination.
 The screenplay won a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award and a National Board of Review Award.
The Morgan Waters Show is a six-minute sketch comedy show starring Morgan Waters, made by CBC Television for its afternoon youth programming lineup, next to the 3 minute "Mr. Meaty" and "Yam Roll".
 Morgan goes through a variety of situations with most characters being played by himself, including the badminton-loving Goth Trent, Phillip the Nerd, and the lovable CBC Executive, Boss Boss.
 Guests appearing on the show include "Canadian Idol" hosts Ben Mulroney and Jon Dore, Rick Mercer, the cast of "", Ashlee Simpson, Simple Plan, OK GO, Alexz Johnson, Ed the Sock, and Tyler Kyte among others.
A Simple Favor is the debut thriller novel by Darcey Bell.
 It was first published on March 21, 2017 by Harper.
 The novel centers around Stephanie, a mom blogger who seeks to uncover the truth behind her best friend Emily's sudden disappearance from their small town in Connecticut.
 Employing the unreliable narrator technique, the story is told through Stephanie, Emily and Emily's husband Sean.
The Real Cancun is an original soundtrack for 2003 American reality film "The Real Cancun", released by Thrive on May 13, 2003.
 The album consists of such popular names as Simple Plan, Trick Daddy and the Kottonmouth Kings among others.
"Don't Wanna Think About You" is a song by Canadian rock band Simple Plan.
 "Don't Wanna Think About You" was released to radio on March 2, 2004.
 It appeared on the to the film "", serving as the film's theme song.
 The song was released to iTunes through Warner Bros.
 Records on March 2, 2004 in promotion of the film.
A Simple Plan is a 1998 American neo-noir crime thriller film adapted by Scott B. Smith from his 1993 novel of the same name.
 Directed by Sam Raimi, it stars Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton and Bridget Fonda.
 Set in rural Minnesota, "A Simple Plan" follows brothers Hank (Paxton) and Jacob Mitchell (Thornton), who, along with Jacob's friend Lou (Brent Briscoe), discover a crashed plane containing $4.4 million in cash.
 The three men go to great lengths to keep the money a secret but begin to doubt each other's trust, resulting in lies, deceit and murder.
The Ruins is the second novel by American author Scott Smith, whose first novel was "A Simple Plan".
 "The Ruins" is a horror story set on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
 It was released on July 18, 2006 (ISBN  ).
Paula Hawkins (born 26 August 1972) is a Zimbabwe-born British author, best known for her best-selling psychological thriller novel "The Girl on the Train" (2015), which deals with themes of domestic violence, alcohol, and drug abuse.
 The novel was adapted into a film starring Emily Blunt in 2016.
 Hawkins' second novel, "Into the Water", was released in 2017.
A Simple Plan is a 1993 thriller novel by Scott Smith. "
The New York Times" review said the book had "emotional accuracy with an exceptionally skilled plot."
 A film adaptation, directed by Sam Raimi, was released in 1998; according to the "Times" review, the novel is so dark that the story was adjusted to soften the ending.
"Can't Keep My Hands Off You" is a promotional single (and in some countries released as the first single) from Simple Plan's fourth studio album, "Get Your Heart On!
".
 The song features Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo as a guest vocalist, and was released as a radio single on March 31, 2011, and an iTunes single on April 19, 2011.
 A music video was released on April 20, 2011.
 It was the band's first single in three years since their last single, "Save You", was released in 2008.
 An alternate version without Cuomo can be found on the soundtrack to the 2011 film "Prom".
 The song was released as the second single in Australia in August 2011 and received frequent airplay.