In 2017, director Jay Karales reached an agreement to adapt the George V. Higgins Boston crime anthology The Sins of the Fathers, published in 1988.
Plot[]
The film would have featured a series of character vignettes based around those in the Higgins anthology of the same name.
Cast[]
- Jacob A. Miller as N/A
- Kinson Theodoris as N/A
- Speed as N/A
- Shannon Briggs as N/A
- Austin Wright as N/A
Why It Was Cancelled[]
- Karales initially sought to adapt the Higgins novel The Digger's Game but the Higgins estate felt the available production budget was too low to warrant an adaptation.
- The source material was ultimately considered too limited without creating an entirely new story.
Results[]
- The Karales version of The Sins of the Fathers film was abandoned.
- Jay Karales focused his interests on the true crime cases surrounding Boston's disappearing men and the Charles River, resulting in the film Mass State Lottery in 2022.