I have recently been granted the non-exclusive right to adapt and direct this Stephen King story into a Short Film.
Originally published in Esquire Magazine it later appeared in his best-selling novel Just After Sunset which is where I first discovered it.
Synopsis (as written by Stephen King)
Author John Dykstra, who writes under the pen name of Rick Hardin, has had too much beer to drink at his mystery writer’s group meeting and desperately needs to find a rest stop on his return from Jacksonville to Sarasota. There is only one other car at the rest stop and he hears its occupants in the Ladies’ Room. It is a woman’s and a man’s voice he hears coming from the bathroom and clearly the sounds of domestic abuse. John Dykstra has to decide how, or even if, he will act to stop it.
After contacting Stephen’s office with my proposal, they were impressed enough to send me the contracts. These were signed and exchanged earlier this year.
Pre-production is due to commence in late 2012.