Another day, another old property getting adapted into a movie. Today’s announcement is that Joel Silver wants to start a film franchise of the old Ross MacDonald mysteries.
Source: Forces of Geek
Plans are to launch a franchise beginning with the eighth book in the series, 1959’s The Galton Case.
The back cover of the 1983 edition describes the plot:
Rich boy Anthony Galton had dropped out of sight more than twenty years ago. To Lew Archer that meant the man was either dead or didn’t want to be found. But Tony’s nice old mother had a dream that her son would still come home before she died. So Archer took on the case hoping that Tony and Mom could live happily ever after… until he discovered that once upon a time there was a clever swindle, a scared blonde, and a very nasty murder.
The idea of modernizing and re-introducing an old detective classic has done well for Mr. Silver as expectations are high for his new Sherlock Holmes movie to do pretty well at the box office come Christmas time. It’s an interesting character to try return to the mainstream if, of course, properly handled.One begs to wonder who Joel Silver may have in mind to work on this project with him. Any guesses?
