By Adnan Tezer Jul 17, 2009, 18:38 GMT
Writer-director Charlie Matthau is going after Elmore Leonard.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Matthau has written a screenplay inspired by Leonard's 1988 novel "Freaky Deaky" and will direct an adaptation of it. The novel involves a bunch of former 1960s radicals and their lives in 1974 Los Angeles. Production is scheduled to begin in January.
Matthau, son of the late Oscar-winning actor Walter Matthau, also is producing the film through his Matthau Company. Simon Horsman of Future Films USA and Fred Pauzar of Blackwood Entertainment Group are executive producing.
Leonard's works have been spun into such films as "Out of Sight," "3:10 to Yuma," "Get Shorty," "Jackie Brown" and "The Big Bounce."
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