The Hawkline Monster follows two ambivalent gunslingers at the dawn of the 20th century, who are hired by a woman named Magic Child to kill the monster that lives in the ice caves underneath her East Oregon home. The film will be produced by Roy Lee ( It), Steven Schneider ( Pet Sematary), and Andrew Trapani ( The Haunting in Connecticut), so it sounds like things are off to a promising start. The studio has acquired the rights to the film, which is tied up between the estates of both Brautigan, who died in 1984, and the late director. Now The Hollywood Reporter has word that New Regency has stepped in to help finish the job. It looks like there's gonna be another attempt to make a big-screen adaptation of legendary director Hal Ashby's passion project, The Hawkline Monster.Ä«ased on the 1974 novel The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western by Richard Brautigan, Ashby ( Harold and Maude, Being There) lobbied for years to make it into a feature film before his death in 1988.
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