Game of Thrones creators and showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are scripting and directing a film version of Dirty White Boys.
As if they do not already have enough on their plate, Game of Thrones co-creators, showrunners, and the directors of last week’s Season 4 premiere episode that broke records, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, have secured the rights for their next project: Dirty White Boys.
As reported by Deadline, the duo of writers have closed a deal with 20th Century Fox to script and direct a film adaptation of the Stephen Hunter novel first published in 1995. From the author of Point of Impact, which served as the basis for Shooter, Dirty White Boys will tell the tale of three escaped convicts from a state penitentiary and the lone lawman who seeks to bring them to justice. Described as a human drama and something of a contemporary “western” by Benioff, it is meant to be a big departure to the masterminds of HBO’s sprawling fantasy epic.
“Game of Thrones was too big a canvas for a movie, but Dirty White Boys is like a great old Western, there’s so much compression and it’s so pressurized, it demands to be told in one sitting,” Benioff said. “If we’d to compress the storytelling in Game of Thrones, we’d have just mutilated the book.”
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However, it will be a while before Benioff and Weiss have time to take on this film. As Weiss said, Game of Thrones is a 52-week job each year. And the creators are determined to see the HBO series through to its (currently) planned Season 7 finale. But they will undoubtedly have an audience for whatever they do next.
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