![]() ![]() Lanthimos, Andrew Lowe, Ed Guiney, Ryan Friedkin, and John Alan Simon are on board as producers. ![]() ![]() 1280 is considered a "high priority," but we're still waiting to find out when filming will begin. In the past, he's been nominated for Best Original Screenplay for The Lobster, and Dogtooth was nominated for Best Foreign Film. Lanthimos is nominated for Best Director at this weekend's Oscars, where The Favourite is a contender for Best Picture. It’s at time where there are telephones but also horses and buggies, early 20 th century. ![]() 1280 was even adapted into a French film in 1981 called Coup de Torchon. 1280 is a funny but terribly brutal story about a sheriff in a small Southern town with a population of 1280 people he’s sheriff of the 47 th largest county in an unnamed state with 47 counties. Several of his other books were eventually adapted into movies, with The Getaway, The Kill-Off, and The Grifters among them. In addition to being a novelist, Thompson himself worked in Hollywood, collaborating with Stanley Kubrick on the scripts for The Killing and Paths of Glory. A seemingly-simple sheriff who's hiding his true psychopathic nature is an idea that's appeared elsewhere in Thompson's body of work: it's at the center of his most famous novel, The Killer Inside Me, which was twice adapted into movies, one starring Stacy Keach in 1976 and one starring Casey Affleck in 2010. ![]()
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