Romero Hops Behind Wheel of BUICK

By News Editor     November 08, 2005
Source: Variety and Amazon

Chesapeake Films has set George Romero to direct the adaptation of FROM A BUICK 8 by Stephen King. The script was written by Johnathon Schaech and Richard Chizmar.

The story centers on a state trooper who is killed on the side of the road. The man's colleagues try to help his son cope, but when the boy discovers his father's dark secret in the barracks' back shed, things start to stir not only in the shed but in the hearts and minds of the veteran troopers who surround him. The troopers of Pennsylvania come into possession of what at first appears to be a vintage automobile. Closer inspection and experimentation conducted by the troopers reveal that this car's doors (and trunk) sometimes open to another dimension populated by gross-out creatures. The veteran troopers' tales of these visits from interdimensional nasties, and the occasional "lightquakes" put on by the car, are passed on to the son of a fallen comrade whose fascination with the car bordered on dangerous obsession.