The 10-episode series stars Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult. McNamara is in the limelight these days as he is the creator, showrunner, and executive producer of the period comedic drama The Great, which debuted last week on Hulu. Paul Swensen and Ianthe Brautigan will executive produce Hawkline Monster, while Natalie Lehmann will oversee for New Regency. Tim Burton also tried his hand at an adaptation. The project has a decades-in-the-making history that saw Hal Ashby try to mount an adaptation for Jack Nicholson and Dustin Hoffman, and later Jeff and Beau Bridges, to star. What follows is a unique adventure where there is more to Magic Child, Miss Hawkline and the house than meets the eye.

Its Bohemian Rhapsody won four Oscars and has grossed more than $900 million worldwide.Īshby’s estate is repped by Michael Sherman Brautigan’s estate is repped by Joel Behr.The book, written by Richard Brautigan and first published in 1974, tells of two unlikely hero gunslingers hired by a 15-year-old girl named Magic Child to kill the monster that lives in ice caves under the basement of a house inhabited by a young woman named Miss Hawkline. The company is coming off the Cannes Film Festival premiere of The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers’ period drama starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe that it co-financed.

Paul Swensen and Ianthe Brautigan will executive produce, and Natalie Lehmann will oversee for New Regency. The adaptive rights fell into a complex stalemate between the Ashby and Brautigan estates for decades before New Regency acquired them. Tim Burton later developed Hawkline Monsterfor Clint Eastwood and Jack Nicholson but that, too, ran into development hell.

The two artists could never see eye to eye on a script for the project, which fell by the wayside when the author died in 1984, followed by Ashby’s death in 1988. Ashby, the influential director of ’70s classics Harold and Maude, Shampoo and Being There, struck a deal with Brautigan - who made a splash with his 1967 debut Trout Fishing in America - in 1975 to adapt Hawkline Monster and at points had Jack Nicholson and Dustin Hoffman, as well as Jeff and Beau Bridges, lined up as the gunslingers.

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