In the meantime I've been told that Benedict Fitzgerald (who did the screenplay for Mel Gibson's THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST) has a family baby-sitting connection with Flannery, and it is Fitzgerald that has long held the rights...never to let them go. And for "A GOOD MAN..." he's constructed a full length screenplay...not just the short story Flannery wrote. Fitzgerald is also the credited writer on Fannery's WISE BLOOD (1979) which John ("Jhon") Huston directed.
The movie production rights for O'Connor's stories had moved around a bit...if memory serves. I got the sense that no one knew how to make the movies and sell them. To call her stories Southern Gothic Horror is perhaps a bit simplistic.
According to the usually late and incorrect IMDB, Michael Rooker is somewhere in production on this story. (Perhaps someone out there that actually knows can update us.)
In the meantime, a filmmaker friend of mine, Jon Springer, (cricketfilms.com) who produced LIVING DEAD GIRL (www.moralpremise.com/LDG) which I discussed in The Moral Premise, has had a long time obsession with visualizing the characters in A GOOD MAN... So, last fall Jon made a trailer for A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND. He does not have the rights. He just wanted to be the first to visualize the characters. I think he did an excellent job. I wrote Michael Rooker's agent, hoping to get Rooker to look at what's below. Are you a Flannery fan? What do you think of Jon's trailer.
A Good Man is Hard to Find - Movie Trailer from Cricket Films on Vimeo.
4 comments:
Did you see Hereditary? Its a horror movie about satanists. I wonder what moral premise it has.
I love this trailer and want the WHOLE short story! I wish someone would produce a "stick-to-the-story" movie. Thank you for your blog.
Why isn't there a real movie? You got the characters down. But a trailer before a movie?
There isn't a movie because there wasn't the budget. Trailers before the movie are often produced as a proof of concept.
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