Hill went on to write a pair of Paul Newman films, "The Mackintosh Man" and "The Drowning Pool". By Hill's own admission, his work on "The Mackintosh Man" "wasn't much" and he did it to settle a lawsuit with Warner Bros, with whom he was angry for selling "Hickey & Boggs"—Warners offered to settle the suit if Hill wrote them a screenplay, giving him the chance to adapt his choice of several novels that the studio owned the film rights to. He picked "The Freedom Trap", by Desmond Bagley.