With everything from Jackie Brown and Get Shorty to 3:10 To Yuma and The Big Bounce having already been adapted for the big screen, you wouldn’t have thought there’d be much written by author Elmore Leonard that hasn’t already been turned into a movie. However he’s a pretty prolific writer and has been working for a very long time, so there’s still more to mine.
The latest Leonard novel that looks like it’s headed to the big screen is Freaky Deaky, about Robin Abbot and Emerson ‘Skip’ Gibbs, who are ex-lovers and ex-radicals of the 1960s who team up once again in the 1980s to even an old score in Detroit. It might not be the normal sort of modern hard-boiled tale many people think of when you talk about Leonard, but he’s a very diverse author who’s written in all sorts of genre.
Writer/director Charlie Matthau, son of the legendary Walter, is the one who’s hoping to bring Freaky Deaky to the big screen. Matthau commented to The Hollywood Reporter, “I am the luckiest director in the world to be able to bring Elmore Leonard’s favourite and finest novel to the screen.”
Production is due to begin in January, although there’s no news yet on when the film might be in cinemas.
Head over to Amazon.co.uk for more info on the Freaky Deaky book.