Aug 2 2007
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Coming To The Big Screen
“The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” one of the most well known books on the 60s drug culture, is finally being made into a movie. The book follows author Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters on a cross-country bus trip and documents the early “acid tests” which were basically Greatful Dead shows where the drinks were all spiked with LSD.
Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Last Days) is now attached to the project as the director, however, no one has been cast in the roles of the Merry Pranksters, which included beat generation icon, Neal Cassady and LSD chemist/Greatful Dead soundman, Owsley Stanley, among others.
