Roger Avary is back in the writing game (after spending eight months in jail on a drunk driving/manslaughter charge) with an adaptation of William Faulkner’s infamous 1931 novel SANCTUARY. Avary was hired by “Cops” producer John Langley (yes, “Cops the TV show), who will produce the film with ALI producer Lee Caplin.
While not residing in the horror genre in the strictest sense, SANCTUARY is a grim affair that contains, via the product description, a sinister cast peppered with social outcasts and perverts who perform abduction, murder, and mayhem in this harsh and brutal story of sensational and motiveless evil.
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For a slightly more informative, though still vague, overview, here goes: First published in 1931, this classic psychological melodrama has been viewed as more of a social document in his tragic legend of the South than mere story. From Popeye, a moonshining racketeer with no conscience and Temple Drake, beautiful, bored and vulnerable, to Harace Benbow, a lawyer of honor and decency wishing for more in his life, and Gowan Stevens, college student with a weakness for drink, Faulkner writes of changing social values and order.
SANCTUARY will be first Avary’s writing credit since 2007’s BEOWULF. He won an Oscar for his screenwriting work on 1994’s PULP FICTION, and has KILLING ZOE, THE RULES OF ATTRACTION and SILENT HILL on his resume.
No director has been attached to SANCTUARY yet.
SILENT HILL star Radha Mitchell
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