Rabbit Bandini Productions and Rubicon Entertainment are teaming up to produce an adaptation of the Stephen King short story Drunken Fireworks, with Deadline reporting that James Franco (11.22.63) has signed on to star, and may also possibly direct.
Drunken Fireworks is featured in King’s short story collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams and “is set in small-town rural Maine, where local good ol’ boy Alden McCausland (Franco) strikes up a rivalry with retired mob boss Nicky Serrano when Nicky moves in across the lake from Alden and his mother. When Nicky bests Alden’s Fourth of July fireworks show, Alden goes to great lengths to ensure that he beats Nicky the next year in a competition known henceforth as the ‘Fourth of July Arms Race’.”
The script for the project is being penned by Matt Rager, who has collaborated with Franco on his directorial efforts As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury and the upcoming In Dubious Battle.
There are a number of Stephen King adaptations on the horizon; Cell arrives this month in the States on VOD, while The Dark Tower is currently in production ahead of a release in January 2017, and the first of a two-part It movie is also slated for release in 2017. Meanwhile, on the small screen, both The Mist and Mr. Mercedes are being turned into TV shows.
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Originally published June 5, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
