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By Jay A. Fernandez
http://www.reuters.com/article/filmNews/idUSTRE56G22O20090717
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Writer-director Charlie Matthau is taking a shot at Elmore Leonard.
Matthau has written a screenplay inspired by Leonard’s 1988 novel “Freaky Deaky” and will direct an adaptation of it. The novel involves a bunch of former 1960s radicals and their shenanigans in 1974 Los Angeles. Production is scheduled to begin in January.
“I am the luckiest director in the world to be able to bring Elmore Leonard’s favorite and finest novel to the screen,” said Matthau, son of the late Oscar-winning actor Walter Matthau.
Leonard’s works have been spun into such films as “Out of Sight,” “3:10 to Yuma,” “Get Shorty,” “Jackie Brown” and “The Big Bounce.”
(Editing by DeanGoodman at Reuters)