Author penning the script
Author Joe R. Lansdale is teaming up with Razor Films to adapt Lansdale’s thriller novel “Savage Season” for the big screen.
“Savage” is the first of eight books in the acclaimed “Hap Collins and Leonard Pine” crime adventure series. Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are two best friends, who are polar opposites living in small town Texas. When Hap’s ex shows up from nowhere promising a huge score, Hap lets Leonard in on the scam leading to an adventure that unravels in unexpected ways.
Lansdale will also write the screenplay. Razor Films’ Andrew Fuller and Lowell Northrop will produce the project.
Andrea Chung (“Passion Play”) will serve as an executive producer.
Lansdale is a seven time Bram Stoker Award Winner and recipient of the Edgar Award, American Horror Award and British Fantasy Award and is considered one of the masters of horror of our generation. Lansdale is also known for writing collected editions of the “Jonah Hex” graphic novels for DC Comics. His story Bubba Ho-Tep was turned into a film starring Bruce Campbell and directed by Don Coscarelli.
“Savage Season” was originally published in 1990 by Ziesing.
Source: Shock Till You Drop
