Slater, Bentley, and Vaugier for King’s Dolan’s Cadillac

Movies based on Stephen King stories have gotten a lot better in recent years, counting amount them pretty much everything by Frank Darabont. I don’t know who is directing “Dolan’s Cadillac”, the latest King short story to make it to the big screen, but the cast is coming together nicely. Christian Slater and Wes Bentley are set to play opposites in the film, while Emmanuelle Vaugier has nabbed the female lead. Slater will play a Vegas gangster, who shows up in the crosshairs of Bentley, who plots revenge after his wife (Vaugier) is killed by Slater.

The Hollywood Reporter has the cast breakdown, including news that poduction is scheduled to begin May 14. No director, as far as I know, has been announced.

Here’s the short story’s set-up from Wikipedia (the site has SPOILERS, so I wouldn’t click on it if I were you):

The narrator, Robinson (no first name given), finds himself a childless widower when Dolan, a wealthy crime-boss, has Robinson’s wife murdered in order to prevent her from testifying against him. The murder (by ignition bomb on her 1968 Chevrolet) is never solved, and Robinson, unskilled in the arts of revenge, has no recourse. Over a seven-year period, however, haunted mentally by his wife’s voice, Robinson devises a scheme of retaliation. Discovering that Dolan regularly makes the same cross-country road trip in his gray/silver Cadillac, Robinson sets an elaborate trap on a desert road in Nevada: He takes on a summer job with a road paving crew just so that he can learn to operate the heavy equipment he needs to execute his plan - excavating a funnel-shaped ditch just long and deep enough to contain the car, but not so wide as to allow escape through the doors…

Seven years. Wow. I give up on my local sports team after two consecutive losses.

But hey, wouldn’t you spend 7 years plotting revenge if Emmanuelle Vaugier (below) was your wife, and some douche from Vegas blew her up?