It had been announced back in December that Yorgos Lanthimos (The Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Favourite) would be directing an adaptation of Richard Brautigan’s 1974 novel The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western for New Regency, and it looks like that’s still the plan. Additionally, Tony McNamara (The Favourite) is now in talks to write the film.
The site details, “The book tells of two unlikely hero gunslingers hired by a 15-year-old girl named Magic Child to kill the monster that lives in ice caves under the basement of a house inhabited by a young woman named Miss Hawkline. What follows is a unique adventure where there is more to Magic Child, Miss Hawkline and the house than meets the eye.”
Roy Lee (IT), Andrew Trapani and Steven Schneider are producing.