Finally, it looks as if the long-discussed big-screen adaptation of Richard Brautigan’s The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western is edging closer to happening.

Courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter, The Killing of a Sacred Deer’s Yorgos Lanthimos is in talks to helm the adaptation for New Regency. Previously, Hal Ashby was attached to direct just such an adaptation, and then Tim Burton likewise was in the director’s chair for the film.

The official blurb on Brautigan’s 1974 book reads:

The time is 1902, the setting eastern Oregon. Magic Child, a fifteen-year-old Indian girl, wanders into the wrong whorehouse looking for the right men to kill the monster that lives in the ice caves under the basement of Miss Hawkline’s yellow house. What follows is a series of wild, witty, and bizarre encounters.

Expect more on this adaptation of The Hawkline: A Gothic Western as it continues to develop.