Credit: Variety
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. 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.
