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Bev Vincent
07-23-2018, 08:19 AM
Stephen King’s bestselling novel From A Buick 8 has been optioned by Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment. Amritraj has set William Brent Bell to write the script and direct. Bell last helmed the STX release The Boy, and his other credits include the Paramont genre hit The Devil Inside, Wer, and Stay Alive. Amritraj will produce. Addison Mehr and Priya Amritraj will be executive producers.

King published the novel in 2002, his second to feature a vintage car as a fulcrum of evil, alongside Christine. From a Buick 8 centers around the rural town of Statler, Pennsylvania where the state police have kept a mysterious 1954 Buick Roadmaster in the shed behind the barracks for over twenty years. But when the town is plagued by strange and supernatural events, it turns out the Buick isn’t exactly a car- it’s a door to another dimension. Pic becomes the latest title on the prolific author’s back list to reignite. It was once developed as a vehicle for Night of the Living Dead‘s George Romero.

Hyde Park will continue its long-term feature film financing partnership here with ImageNation Abu Dhabi. Next up on the genre front for Hyde Park is Prey, which Hyde Park fully financed as a co-production with Blumhouse. Amritraj and Jason Blum produce that one.

>>> Source (https://deadline.com/2018/07/stephen-king-from-a-buick-8-movie-william-brent-bell-hyde-park-ashok-amritraj-1202431675/)

CyberGhostface
07-23-2018, 08:55 AM
The director of ‘The Boy’ and ‘The Devil Inside’? This is in good hands.

mae
07-23-2018, 09:34 AM
Cool news. I don't think there were any other news about the Romero version other than the original announcement in November 2005:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2005/11/09/romero-driving-buick-8

Night of the Living Dead director George A. Romero has signed a deal with newly-formed production company Chesapeake Films to helm a movie adaptation of Stephen King's novel From a Buick 8, according to today's Variety.

The novel, published in 2002, is the story of a man who, following the death of his police officer father in a tragic accident, discovers a secret that members of Pennsylvania State Patrol's Troop D have long kept hidden behind their headquarters. The man encounters his father's friends and colleagues who take turns relating the twenty-year history of the mysterious Buick Roadmaster locked in Shed B and how its discovery and unexplained behavior has captivated the tightly knit group of men for two decades. The Buick seems to be a conduit to another reality and every now and then it breathes, inhaling a little bit of this world, exhaling a little bit of whatever world it came from.

It's more like King's The Green Mile than his earlier automobile-centric work Christine, which was also turned into a film.

The script for From a Buick 8 was penned by Johnathon Schaech and Richard Chizmar, principles at Chesapeake Films.

Romero, whose work was last seen in theaters with Land of the Dead, is currently in production on Diamond Dead, the story of a young woman who must kill 365 people with the help of a rock band that she accidentally killed and brought back to life. He's also linked to another Stephen King adaptation, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.

mae
07-23-2018, 03:23 PM
Oh right, I remember now. It was Tobe Hooper later in 2007:

https://variety.com/2007/film/markets-festivals/tobe-hooper-gets-buick-in-gear-1117973826/

Tobe Hooper will direct the feature adaptation of Stephen King’s novel “From a Buick 8.”

Actor-writer Johnathon Schaech and Richard Chizmar wrote the script, which was optioned by Moonstone Entertainment chairman-CEO Etchie Stroh and Amicus Entertainment prexy Robert Katz.

“From a Buick 8” centers on a mysterious Buick stored in a state trooper barracks. After one of the troopers dies, his son becomes obsessed with the mysterious vintage automobile.

“From a Buick 8” will not be “your stock horror film by any means. There’s a really cool, layered quality to the story,” Hooper said. “The producers, writers and I shared the same sensibility about the project and responded to it in a similar way.”

Stroh and Katz will produce the film under their partnership, which was announced at the Cannes Film Festival (Daily Variety, May 16). Also producing are Schaech and Chizmar, through their Chesapeake Films banner, and frequent King collaborator Mick Garris (“Masters of Horror,” “The Stand”).

Hooper, who helmed the original “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” has most recently directed episodes of Showtime’s “Masters of Horror” and the miniseries “Ghosts” for Lionsgate.

George Romero was at one time attached to direct “Buick” for Chesapeake.

Moonstone Entertainment has produced and handled international sales for pics including “The Promise,” from Chen Kaige; Robert Altman’s “Cookie’s Fortune”; and Mike Figgis’ “Miss Julie.”

Amicus produced “Stuck,” which bowed at the Toronto Film Festival, and the upcoming remake of “It’s Alive.” Katz exec produced the Schaech starrer “Sea of Dreams,” currently in theaters.

Schaech next stars in Screen Gems’ “Prom Night,” which bows in April. Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, published “From a Buick 8.” Chizmar’s Cemetery Dance book imprint published a limited edition of the novel.

And then it disappeared:

https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/15963/buick-8-update-schaech-says-script-is-great-but/

Unfortunately, the recent economic crisis is hitting film production pretty hard of late. Schaech admits that he thought the project was practically a done deal after getting King’s approval and signing on director Tobe Hooper. “That’s what we thought,” says Schaech, raising his voice and laughing.

Sai Sheb
07-23-2018, 10:45 PM
Ive been waiting ages for this... I know few didn't like the book that much, but I loved it! :smile:

georgiesarm
07-24-2018, 12:55 AM
The director of ‘The Boy’ and ‘The Devil Inside’? This is in good hands.


Guess the inevitable wave of terrible King adaptations is in sight now too

CyberGhostface
07-24-2018, 06:26 AM
Yep. I don't want to keep on saying "Mike Flanagan should do this" to every single King film but this is something he could have done perfectly as it's a pretty slow book with only sporadic glimpses at the 'other side'.

CyberGhostface
12-04-2019, 10:21 AM
Actor Thomas Jane (The Predator) and producer Courtney Lauren Penn (Altitude) are teaming up to form LA-based content company Renegade Entertainment with Stephen King novel adaptation From A Buick 8 their first movie project on the docket.

“From a Buick 8 is a thrilling and deeply personal project for us,” said Jane and Penn, “as we explore a uniquely structured mystery spanning the 70s, 80s, 90s and post-9/11 era, centered around a son’s search for the truth behind his father’s sudden death. Along with first love and grief, terrifying and philosophic mysteries are spawned by inexplicable events connected to the titular car. We are honored that Stephen is supporting our vision of his brilliant, provocative novel.”

https://deadline.com/2019/12/stephen-king-from-buick-8-thomas-jane-courtney-penn-renegade-1202799892/

Aremag
12-04-2019, 11:05 AM
As I'm in the middle of re-reading this novel I've been wondering if we'd ever see a film adaptation. I then wonder if this will be one of the good adaptations or another disappointment.

mae
08-15-2020, 04:04 PM
https://www.slashfilm.com/from-a-buick-8-movie-director/

Back in 2019, word broke that actor Thomas Jane and Courtney Lauren Penn were forming the production company Renegade Entertainment and that their first project would be an adaptation of Stephen King‘s From a Buick 8. Since then, however, we haven’t heard much about the project. While appearing on the Stephen King-themed podcast The Kingcast, Jane offered up some new info on the project. Specifically, he revealed that Cold in July and In the Shadow of the Moon director Jim Mickle had been tapped to helm the movie.

The latest episode of The Kingcast podcast, which is available to listeners through their Patreon, features Mr. Tom Jane, an actor who has three Stephen King adaptations to his name: Dreamcatcher, The Mist and 1922. He’s also working on a fourth, From a Buick 8, but the fate of that film remains a bit up in the air. But here’s one thing we now know: Jim Mickle is going to direct. Mickle’s credits include Stake Land, We Are What We Are, Cold in July, and the recent Netflix film In the Shadow of the Moon. He’s a good director – Cold in July is particularly strong, throwing off serious John Carpenter vibes.

King adaptations are in vogue again, which means everyone and their mother is trying to adapt the leftover titles that have yet to find their way to the screen. From a Buick 8 is a later-period King novel, and honestly, it’s not that great. It’s about a car that spits alien monsters out of its trunk. But it’s also about legacy, and family, and all that stuff King does so well. Here’s the full synopsis:

Since 1979, the state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in the shed out behind the barracks. Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox had answered a strange call just down the road and came back with an abandoned 1953 Buick Roadmaster. Curt Wilcox knew old cars, and this one was…just wrong. As it turned out, the Buick 8 was worse than dangerous—and the members of Troop D decided that it would be better if the public never found out about it. Now, more than twenty years later, Curt’s son Ned starts hanging around the barracks and is allowed into the Troop D family. And one day he discovers the family secret—a mystery that begins to stir once more, not only in the minds and hearts of these veteran troopers, but out in the shed as well, for there’s more power under the hood than anyone can handle.

Speaking with the Kingcast, Jane said:

“Do you guys know Jim Mickle? He’s pretty fucking good. We’ve signed Jim Mickle on. It is [exciting], and we’ve got a couple of fantastic writers that Jim has worked with in the past, and here”s the funny part. Everybody was so excited and we had meetings all around town, but if you’ll recall, From a Buick 8 is essentially about a platoon of state troopers in Pennsylvania, right. When the pandemic hit and then the craziness with the riots and all that and the anti-police stuff hit, we were like, ‘Okay, maybe it’s not the best time to pitch a story about a platoon of Pennsylvania state troopers.'”

Jane sure makes it sound like the project is on hold for the moment, but we’ll have to wait and see how things shake out. In the meantime, you can support The Kingcast, who are breaking lots of cool Stephen King stories lately, via their Patreon.

St. Troy
08-21-2020, 05:56 AM
The stakes are definitely lower with a second-tier (at best) work such as FAB8 (which I did enjoy), so maybe they can get something entertaining out of it without having to screw it up too much.