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Lost star Josh Holloway has been chasing a movie version of western author Louis L’Amour's Flint for 20 years - and finally got it
What does it take to get a dream project to come together? Patience and a billionaire willing to pay for it, according to Lost star Josh Holloway
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For years, the work of Louis L’Amour has stood as a high-water mark for fans of western and frontier fiction, with many of his stories being adapted for the screen, including The Quick and The Dead, Conagher, and The Iron Marshal. One of his most famous novels — 1960’s Flint — has stayed away from the screen… until Lost and Duster star Josh Holloway got involved, that is.
In April, it was announced that Holloway would star as the title character in an upcoming adaptation of the novel about a successful business who gets drawn into a range war in New Mexico after his retirement due to ill-health. Turns out, it’s a project that Holloway has been trying to get off the ground for years.
“I’ve been chasing L’Amour’s son, Beau, for 20 years for this role,” Holloway told The Hollywood Reporter. (Louis L’Amour himself died in 1988.) “I was on Lost for our first meeting about Flint. I wasn’t the right age then, because Flint was an older character. It took all that time, and I kept presenting him with different ideas.”
So, what made now the right time for the project to finally happen? Apparently good luck and good financing.
“Finally, I got a call that some billionaire wants to fund it,” Holloway continued. “We all fly down to Sarasota, got picked up in a chopper, went to this beautiful farm, and the next thing you know, we’re making Flint. So I’m like, ‘Wow! I guess that’s how this industry works.’”
The movie will be written and directed by Ryan Whitaker, with Holloway producing alongside Ken Carpenter, Mark Pentecost, Jerilyn Esquibel, and Beau L’Amour; no release date has been announced for the project. In the meantime, Holloway can be seen on screens in the HBO Max series Duster, with new episodes dropping Thursdays.
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