“Game of Thrones” series creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have set up their first big screen feature. Deadline today brings word that the pair will adapt Stephen Hunter’s novel Dirty White Boys, writing, directing and producing for 20th Century Fox. Hunter, best known as a reporter for The Washington Post, published the book in 1994 with the following official description:
They busted out of McAlester State Penitentiary–three escaped convicts going to ground in a world unprepared for anything like them….
Lamar Pye is prince of the Dirty White Boys. With a lion in his soul, he roars–for he is the meanest, deadliest animal on the loose….
Odell is Lamar’s cousin, a hulking manchild with unfeeling eyes. He lives for daddy Lamar. Surely he will die for him….
Richard’s survival hangs on a sketch: a crude drawing of a lion and a half-naked woman. For this Lamar has let Richard live…
Armed to the teeth, Lamar and his boys have cut a path of terror across the Southwest, and pushed one good cop into a crisis of honor and conscience. Trooper Bud Pewtie should have died once at Lamar’s hands. Now they’re about to meet again. And this time, only one of them will walk away….
With commitments in place to their HBO series, it may be a few years before Dirty White Boys sees the light of day, but check back for updates on the project as they become available.
