‘The Thicket’ Author Joe R. Lansdale “Nearly Lost It” Over a Change in the Film Based on His Book

Joe R. Lansdale is the prolific author of more than sixty novels, and six of his stories have made it to the big and small screens. When his gritty Western thriller The Thicket was published in 2013 by Mulholland Books, it was quickly snapped up by Hollywood. But production on the film took years to get off the ground, partly because of delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. “I’m used to waiting,” Lansdale said during a recent video call from his home in Nacogdoches, in East Texas. “The first thing of mine to be made into a film took eight years.”The wait ends Friday with the release of The Thicket in theaters. The movie, set in late-nineteenth-century Texas, stars Levon Hawke, son of Austin’s Ethan Hawke, as Jack Parker, a freshly orphaned teen…

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