Well, it looks like 1922, THE MIST, and DREAMCATCHER actor Tom Jane just can't get enough Stephen King. Yes, today we have word that Jane is teaming with producer Courtney Lauren Penn (ALTITUDE) and Renegade Entertainment to bring FROM A BUICK 8, one of the few King novels yet be adapted for the screen, our way soon.
Jane and Penn said:
From a Buick 8 is a thrilling and deeply personal project for us, 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.
The books rather lengthy Amazon rundown goes like this:
The state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in Shed B out back of the barracks ever since 1979 when Troopers Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox answered a call from a gas station just down the road and came back with an abandoned Buick Roadmaster. Curt Wilcox knew old cars, and he knew immediately that this one was…wrong, just wrong. A few hours later, when Rafferty vanished, Wilcox and his fellow troopers knew the car was worse than dangerous — and that it would be better if John Q. Public never found out about it.
Curt's avid curiosity taking the lead, they investigated as best they could, as much as they dared. Over the years the troop absorbed the mystery as part of the background to their work, the Buick 8 sitting out there like a still life painting that breathes — inhaling a little bit of this world, exhaling a little bit of whatever world it came from.
In the fall of 2001, a few months after Curt Wilcox is killed in a gruesome auto accident, his 18-year-old boy Ned starts coming by the barracks, mowing the lawn, washing windows, shoveling snow. Sandy Dearborn, Sergeant Commanding, knows it's the boy's way of holding onto his father, and Ned is allowed to become part of the Troop D family. One day he looks in the window of Shed B and discovers the family secret. Like his father, Ned wants answers, and the secret begins to stir, not only in the minds and hearts of the veteran troopers who surround him but in Shed B as well…
From a Buick 8 is a novel about our fascination with deadly things, about our insistence on answers when there are none, about terror and courage in the face of the unknowable.
That's all we know at this point in time but stick with us here at AITH and we will make sure to pass along further updates as we hear them. In the meantime, how excited are you to hear Tom Jane will be producing an adaptation of Stephen King's FROM A BUICK 8? Let us know below!