For years, the work of Louis L’Amour has stood as a excessive-water mark for followers of western and frontier fiction, with many of his tales being tailored for the display, together with The Fast and The Lifeless, Conagher, and The Iron Marshal. One of his most well-known novels — 1960’s Flint — has stayed away from the display… till Lost and Duster star Josh Holloway got concerned, that’s.
In April, it was announced that Holloway would star as the title character in an upcoming adaptation of the novel about a profitable enterprise who will get drawn into a vary conflict in New Mexico after his retirement resulting from in poor health-well being. Seems, it’s a undertaking that Holloway has been making an attempt to get off the bottom for years.
“I’ve been (*20*) L’Amour’s son, Beau, for 20 years for this function,” Holloway told The Hollywood Reporter. (Louis L’Amour himself died in 1988.) “I used to be on Lost for our first assembly about Flint. I wasn’t the suitable age then, as a result of Flint was an older character. It took all that point, and I stored presenting him with completely different concepts.”
So, what made now the suitable time for the undertaking to finally occur? Apparently good luck and good financing.
“Finally, I got a name that some billionaire desires to fund it,” Holloway continued. “All of us fly all the way down to Sarasota, got picked up in a chopper, went to this lovely farm, and the following factor , we’re making Flint. So I’m like, ‘Wow! I assume that’s how this business works.’”
The movie will likely be written and directed by Ryan Whitaker, with Holloway producing alongside Ken Carpenter, Mark Pentecost, Jerilyn Esquibel, and Beau L’Amour; no launch date has been introduced for the undertaking. Within the meantime, Holloway will be seen on screens within the HBO Max sequence Duster, with new episodes dropping Thursdays.
