Writer-director Charlie Matthau is taking a shot at Elmore Leonard. Matthau has written a screenplay inspired by Leonard's 1988 novel "
Freaky Deaky" and will direct an adaptation of it. The novel involves a bunch of former 1960s radicals and their shenanigans in 1974 Los Angeles. Production is scheduled to begin in January.
Matthau, son of the late Oscar-winning actor Walter Matthau, also is producing the film through his Matthau Co. Simon Horsman of Future Films USA and Fred Pauzar of Blackwood Entertainment Group are executive producing.