FROM A BUICK 8 by Stephen King
Tobe Hooper Confirmed For BUICK 8
By: Jarrod Sarafin, News EditorDate: Thursday, October 11, 2007
Source: Variety
Six months after Shock Til You Drop announced it, Variety has confirmed that famous horror director Tobe Hooper will be helming the adaptation of Stephen King's FROM A BUICK 8. For a while, it was thought that another horror icon, George A. Romero, would be directing the film but due to production stalling and Romero's schedule, it wasn't meant to be. Instead, Hooper has taken over the project for Moonstone Entertainment & Amicus Entertainment which own the option rights. Johnathon Schaech and Richard Chizmar are handling the screenplay.
"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."
Plot Concept: The story centers around a mysterious Buick stored in the shed of a state trooper barracks. This isn't any normal vehicle but a portal to another universe (Stephen King's Midworld/Territories verse featured in many of his novels.). Trying to understand his father's death and obsession with the car, a curious son tries to know more about it.
