Don Coscarelli picks up the rights to JOHN DIES AT THE END
Posted by Matt Holmes
There’s a spoiler movie title on par with THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD.
Don Coscarelli, the cult favourite director of BUBBA HO-TEP has picked up the film rights to the David Wong’s novel JOHN DIES AT THE END (which has a perfect 5 star rating from 79 reviews on Amazon) and it looks like it could be his next feature.
From AICN…
The story details the adventures of two Midwest slackers who find themselves fighting inter-dimensional evil, a task for which they are profoundly unqualified:
“It’s a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. On the street they call it Soy Sauce, and users drift across time and dimensions. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is John and David, a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs. Can these two stop the oncoming horror in time to save humanity? No. No, they can’t.”
“I was greatly impressed by David Wong’s crazed originality and impressive imagination,” revealed Coscarelli. “He’s like a mash-up of Douglass Adams and Stephen King, both smart and goofy, scary and funny — it really spoke to me. JDatE is as addictive as the ‘Soy Sauce’ street drug that kicks the plot into gear.”
Sounds like typical Coscarelli fodder. I’m down with it, though it is a shame that Bruce Campbell has turned his back on BUBBA NOSFERATU. I mean hell, it’s not like he’s an in-demand actor these days is it?
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