Three-time Stephen King adaptation star Thomas Jane has given a disappointing update on a film based on the horror author’s work that won’t see the light of day. Jane has starred in three films based on King’s work so far, those being The Mist, Dreamcatcher, and 1922. His connection to the author’s work highlights how he’s been able to partake in his adaptations for many years.
Speaking on The Kingcast, however, Jane reveals plans for an adaptation of King’s From a Buick 8 which were canceled due to the rights lapsing. While a team had been assembled to write the film, the pandemic caused them to lose the rights for making the movie. Check out what Jane had to say below:
Unfortunately it’s not…. We had Jim Mickle, and, in fact, the week we were supposed to go out and pitch it is when the world shut down. So we put that on hold. And then when we started kind of creeping out of the pandemic, I got Mark [Fergus] and Hawk [Ostby] who wrote Children of Men and Iron Man 3 – and they also helped create The Expanse. So I brought them on board, and we were working on it. And then we had to rug pulled out from under us because Stephen’s agent had actually…without bothering to tell us, he’d informed us that our lease had lapsed…. It was just because of the pandemic. Technically the option had lapsed a long time ago because nobody was doing anything…so it was just a matter of miscommunication. I think James Wan’s company has it now. And we were hoping that they would turn in a different draft that nobody liked, but apparently they do like it! Because, obviously, we were first in line to get back. So we’ll see what happens. We continue to follow it. The road from script to screen can be long and circuitous. So we’ll see what happens. But yeah, that was disappointing.
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