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L.A. Punk Novel ‘What We Do Is Secret’ Acquired for Film Adaptation by Rubber Ring Films, Director Matthew Mishory (EXCLUSIVE)
Director Matthew Mishory and Bradford L. Schlei have acquired rights to the L.A.-set punk novel "What We Do Is Secret" by Thorn Kief Hillsberry.
The tragic story of acclaimed punk band the Germs, whose lead singer Crash overdosed and died in 1980, also provides inspiration for this new project, which has the working title “Under the Big Black Sun” (not to be confused with the X album of that name). Over the course of the book’s 24 hours, Rockets and his crew of Hollywood runaways turn tricks, score drugs and concoct a desperate, doomed scheme to defraud a pair of tourists — all set to the driving beat of L.A.’s first-wave punk explosion,” reads the synopsis. Schlei, who also heads Stone Canyon Entertainment, adds: “I’m excited to return to my filmmaking roots with a project based on an enduring novel and exploring the underbelly of my long love affair with the Los Angeles of the 1980s.”
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