Deadline is reporting that Sean Stone, son of filmmaker Oliver Stone, is set to adapt his father’s novel A Child’s Night Dream, with Emmett/Furla/Oasis giving the green light to a feature film, which will begin production in April.
Stone penned the novel back when he was 19 as he returned from a spell in Vietnam as a teacher in a Roman Catholic school in Saigon, with the book informed by his own personal experiences. The movie will update the timeline, and follow Chris, “a teen who leaves college to enlist in the Army shortly after the 9/11 attack, despite protests from his parents.”
“My own high school and early college years informed the script, and helped it evolve from the time period my father set it in,” said Sean Stone. “The themes included understanding my own relationship to my parents, my first crush, and the backdrop of 9/11 and the Iraq War. My dad wrote the novel before he went off the war, and so his was a different interpretation from what he wrote later, more surreal like Apocalypose Now than Platoon. I did not go to war, so mine was not a veteran’s journey, but more one of a young man on an internal journey, coming into adulthood.”
Originally published December 6, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
