leaked last month when Xolo Maridue\u00f1a<\/a>, the star of\u00a0Blue Beetle\u00a0and\u00a0Cobra Kai, said\u00a0he was working on a “Ghost Tracks” film during a Hollywood Reporter interview about Practical Magic 2. Hurtado could not confirm details at the time but now tells MySA that a TV adaptation of both novels is being explored.<\/p>\nNothing has been greenlit yet, but\u00a0Hurtado says he is grateful that Maridue\u00f1a and his team are interested\u00a0in bringing Erasmo Cruz’s story to life.<\/p>\n
“You spend years alone writing a book, never knowing if anyone is going to read it. Having someone like Xolo see something in the story and want to be part of bringing that world to the screen is pretty special,” Hurtado said to MySA.<\/p>\n
For anyone who doesn’t know, the Ghost Tracks are a real place on the Southside near Villamain and Shane roads. Allegedly, the ghosts of children who died when their school bus was hit by a train are known to push cars stalled on the tracks to safety, leaving ghostly fingerprints on the rear of their cars.<\/p>\n
Given the success of The Ghost Tracks, Hurtado’s publisher, Inkshares, and its CEO, Adam Gomolin,\u00a0have been pushing for Hollywood to take interest in the story. Whether or not an adaptation happens, Hurtado is glad he can add a new wrinkle to Texas stories beyond\u00a0the stereotypes.<\/p>\n
“When people think about stories set in Texas, they tend to picture the same places and the same version of Texas,” Hurtado says to MySA. “San Antonio has its own identity, its own culture, and its own stories. I’d love for more people to see that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio author Celso Hurtado has gained acclaim for his horror novels The Ghost Tracks and The Devil’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2107,820,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-459677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-mysaentertainment","tag-mysastaff","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}