After being attached to direct the book to film adaptation of Matthew F. Jones’ A Single Shot, Dahmer helmer David Jacobson has instead pulled out another Jones novel in Boot Tracks and will direct that instead. Presented at the EFM, the dramatic thriller should see the combo of the rarely cast Matt Dillon and Michelle Monaghan. The Tracking Board reports a mid 2011 start date.
Gist: Based on the novel “Boot Tracks” by Matthew F. Jones, fresh out of prison, Charlie Rankin is out of prison but not out of danger. Indebted to the man who saved his life behind bars, Charlie must now carry out a murder to settle the score. Unexpectedly he meets Florence, a mysterious and beautiful lost soul who sees the good within Charlie’s dark shell. When the hit goes bad, Charlie soon finds himself in over his head and must figure out how to settle his debts, discover his own identity, embrace a romance with Florence, and find the road to redemption.
Worth Noting: Of the author’s six novels, only Deepwater was made into a feature film starring Lucas Black and Peter Coyote.
Do We Care?: We haven’t been excited for a Dillon performance since Factotum and as we’ve mentioned before, we look forward in seeing Jacobson return to the director’s chair – his first outing since 2005’s Down in the Valley.
