![]() ![]() Its Bohemian Rhapsody won four Oscars and has grossed more than $900 million worldwide.Īshby’s estate is repped by Michael Sherman Brautigan’s estate is repped by Joel Behr. On a job in Hawaii, they are stopped by the fact their target is with his son. Taking place mainly in eastern Oregon in 1902, the story concerns a pair of morally ambivalent gunmen, Cameron and Greer. The company is coming off the Cannes Film Festival premiere of The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers’ period drama starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe that it co-financed. The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western is a novel by Richard Brautigan first published in 1974. Paul Swensen and Ianthe Brautigan will executive produce, and Natalie Lehmann will oversee for New Regency. ![]() The adaptive rights fell into a complex stalemate between the Ashby and Brautigan estates for decades before New Regency acquired them. Tim Burton later developed Hawkline Monsterfor Clint Eastwood and Jack Nicholson but that, too, ran into development hell. ![]() The two artists could never see eye to eye on a script for the project, which fell by the wayside when the author died in 1984, followed by Ashby’s death in 1988. Ashby, the influential director of ’70s classics Harold and Maude, Shampoo and Being There, struck a deal with Brautigan - who made a splash with his 1967 debut Trout Fishing in America - in 1975 to adapt Hawkline Monster and at points had Jack Nicholson and Dustin Hoffman, as well as Jeff and Beau Bridges, lined up as the gunslingers. ![]()
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