Somebody asked Joe Hill if he wanted to direct, and this is what he said: “I would only want to jump into directing if I had a chance to do the reboot of Maximum Overdrive. If someone offered me the chance to write and direct a relaunch of Maximum Overdrive, I’d jump at that in a second.”
Joe Hill is, as you know, Stephen King’s son; and Stephen King, as you may know, was the guy who directed the egregious piece of crap known as Maximum Overdrive. I’m not saying that to shame King; he’s as horrified at the results as I was, and that movie is apparently the reason why he never tried to direct, ever again. At least, that’s what Wikipedia says, and why would they lie about that?
And yet. The short story it was based on (“Trucks”) is actually very good, and I retain the stubborn belief that there’s a decent movie somewhere inside the aforementioned egregious piece of crap. Deep, deep inside. I can believe that Joe, growing up in the King household, may have heard tales of Steve’s Shining Moment Of Hubris and said to himself, Someday I shall succeed where you have failed, Father. Someday I shall destroy the Beast.
…or something. Anyway, I’m down with them trying again. Why the Hell not? It’s gonna be hard for Joe Hill to do any worse.