C.J. Box “The Highway” to Become Television Series
A book by Wyoming author C.J. Box will be turned into a series by ABC, Box has announced.
In an interview with Cowboy State Daily, Box said his book “The Highway” will be turned into a series called “Big Sky.”
Box called “The Highway,” about a long-haul trucker who is a serial killer, the “creepiest thing I ever wrote.”
“(The television series will) be dark and scary,” he said. “A lot of people who have read it say it is one of the creepiest things they’ve ever read. The pilot I read scared me, even though I knew what was going to happen.”
Filming for the series is to begin in March and resume in the summer.
Box is known for his “Joe Pickett” novels about a game warden in Wyoming, but “The Highway” focuses on a private investigator from Montana.
The rights to a number of Box’s books have been purchased for production, he said, but none have resulted in a movie or television series until “The Highway.”
“Actually, (it’s) kind of gotten comfortable, into a groove, where these people in Hollywood give me money and don’t make anything,” he said. “And it’s not so bad.”
Box said he hopes the series leads to increased book sales.
“If there’s a series, it’s great advertising for the book,” he said. “It’s not as lucrative as it used to be in entertainment, because there’s a million TV channels and streaming services. But with this network show, that will get a lot of eyeballs and hopefully some of those people will be interested in reading the book.”
