(Again, it’s a hell of a story and one paragraph hardly does it justice.)
The entire story was told in the 2012 book Cobra Killer: Gay Porn Murder, and now it’s being adapted as King Cobra, which stars Christian Slater as “Stephen,” who is based on Kocis, and James Franco as Joe, or Joseph Kerekes, one of the murderers and aspiring porn kingpins. They wanted to make a film with Corrigan that would earn more money than any gay-porn movie in history, but - SPOILER ALERT - they’re in prison for life. Lockhart rose to fame in the gay-porn industry as Brent Corrigan, predominantly starring in films produced by Cobra Video, which was owned by Bryan Kocis, who was murdered by two male escorts and wannabe rival producers in 2007.
The story of Sean Paul Lockhart is a truly bizarre one, which basically guarantees James Franco would get involved in the film version.
