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Tom Gordon movie
Fangoria reports: "Romero’s adaptation of Stephen King’s THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON, is waiting in the wings and could also roll by mid-2005."
http://www.fangoria.com/news_article.php?id=2523
http://www.fangoria.com/news_article.php?id=2523
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Basically, he says it's still a possibility, but it doesn't sound like there's anything concrete in the works. He did say that Dakota Fanning, the young actress who was to be in the film, is no longer in the running thanks to the advice of a new agent.
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....and TG is a perfect opportunity for any young actress!
I suggest the agent(s) actually read the book first!
Stephen King’s 1999 short novel “The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon” is set to get a film adaptation which will be produced by George A. Romero’s former wife Chris Romero, Roy Lee (“IT”), Jon Berg (“Doctor Sleep”) and celebrated short film producer Ryan Silbert.
The story follows a young girl named Trisha McFarland who gets lost while hiking with her recently divorced mother and brother in the woods. Nine years old and scared of the dark, she winds up stumbling through the woods for days, wandering farther and farther from civilization even as she tries to make her way back.
As she walks, dehydration, hunger, and exhaustion cause her to hallucinate several people including her baseball player idol Tom Gordon. She also begins to believe that she’s being stalked by a supernatural beast known as The God of the Lost – and her ordeal becomes a test of both her sanity and her ability to fight for life.
A search for a writer to tackle the script is underway. George Romero was initially involved in a Tom Gordon adaptation in the early 2000s but the project stalled and Romero passed away in 2017.
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Village Roadshow Pictures has optioned Stephen King’s psychological horror novel, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, which will be adapted for the screen by Christy Hall, the co-creator and executive producer of the Netflix series, I Am Not Okay With This.
Jon Berg of Stampede Ventures is producing the project alongside It Chapter Two and Doctor Sleep producer Roy Lee of Vertigo, Christine Romero, the former wife of the late George Romero who is best known for the Living Dead films, and Origin Story’s Ryan Silbert.
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Village Roadshow is backing the project that adapts King's 1999 book. Lynne Ramsay, who last directed the acclaimed thriller You Were Never Really Here, has come aboard to direct The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Village Roadshow’s adaptation of the Stephen King novel. Christine Romero, the former wife of late horror filmmaker George A. Romero, is producing with It producer Roy Lee of Vertigo Films as well as Ryan Silbert of Origin Story and Jon Berg through Stampede Ventures.
Christy Hall, who co-created Netflix’s I’m Not Okay With This, wrote the script with Ramsay. Andrew Childs will executive produce and Village Roadshow Pictures’ exec vp of content, Jillian Apfelbaum, will oversee production, which is expected to begin shooting next year.