Bill Paxton to Direct Adaptation of Joe R. Lansdale Thriller ‘The Bottoms’
Posted on Friday, February 7th, 2014 by Russ Fischer
Author Joe R. Lansdale is having a minor resurgence on movie screens. The film Cold in July, adapted from Lansdale’s novel, played well at Sundance last month and is en route to theaters via IFC.
Now Bill Paxton has set another Lansdale novel, The Bottoms, as the next film he’ll direct. In fact, the same company that produced Cold in July is also behind this adaptation, and brought in Paxton thanks to an affinity for his film Frailty, and the fact that Paxton has wanted to make a film based on The Bottoms. Paxton will work once again with Frailty screenwriter Brent Hanley on the adaptation, to tell the story of racial-tinged murders that twist life in a Depression-era Texas town.
