Bill Paxton is set to direct a film adaptation of Joe. R. Landale's Edgar Award-winning novel The Bottoms from a screenplay written by Brent Hanley. (More about the book, below.)
"I have been a big fan of Joe Lansdale's writing since the Hap And Leonard novels," Paxton told Deadline. "His stories and characters are vivid, original and indelible. The screenwriter Brent Hanley and I have been looking to team up again … and when we read Joe's book The Bottoms, we knew we had hit pay dirt. With a story and script this good, we have a chance to make a bonafide classic. I couldn't be more excited!"
Production is expected to begin later this year.
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The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale
A Crime Thriller
Publisher: Vintage
Winner of the 2001 Edgar Award for Best Novel.
It is 1933 in East Texas and the Depression lingers in the air like a slow moving storm. When a young Harry Collins and his little sister stumble across the body of a black woman who has been savagely mutilated and left to die in the bottoms of the Sabine River, their small town is instantly charged with tension. When a second body turns up, this time of a white woman, there is little Harry can do from stopping his Klan neighbors from lynching an innocent black man.
Together with his younger sister, Harry sets out to discover who the real killer is, and to do so they will search for a truth that resides far deeper than any river or skin color.
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