James Franco Starring in Stephen King Adaptation Drunken Fireworks
John Squires
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At this point, it’s more or less an unwritten rule that everything Stephen King writes will eventually be turned into a movie or mini-series, and so it comes as no great surprise that King’s short story Drunken Fireworks is next up on the ole chopping block. The story was released last year as an audio book, and it’s soon headed to the screen.
Per Deadline, James Franco will star in the adaptation from Rabbit Bandini Productions and Rubicon Entertainment. The script is being penned by Matt Rager (As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury), and the site notes that Franco may also direct – though that hasn’t yet been decided, at this time.
Drunken Fireworks is a darkly comic tale of a blue-collar mechanic and a retired mob boss who go head to head in an increasingly antagonistic annual Fourth of July fireworks competition. The tale 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.”
Franco and Vince Jolivette will produce with Doug McKay, Robert Kaplan, Marc Senter and Nathan Grubbs of Rubicon.
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