Drunken Fireworks is based on a short story of the same name from a collection of fiction titled The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. This story centers on a heated rivalry between a mechanic and a mob boss who engage in a battle of wills over who can produce the more impressive Fourth of July fireworks display. What We Know: Not all of the Stephen King adaptations being produced are from the horror genre. That story is a cat-and-mouse thriller involving two women. News broke a few months before this announcement that Perry was also attached to write and direct a film adaptation of King’s 2003 short story Rest Stop. No casting or premiere date has been announced. A new film adaptation from director Alex Ross Perry was announced in 2019. Romero and starring Timothy Hutton fell flat and has a 56% Tomatometer score. A 1993 film version from director George A. Published in 1989 after it was revealed that he had written under the pen name Richard Bachman, this horror story imagines what happens if a writer’s pseudonym came to life and also happened to be blood-thirsty. What We Know: King has long been able to mine details of his own life for source material and his The Dark Half is no exception. In 2021, Deadline reported that Hannibal creator Bryan Fuller would be directing a new version of the story and that Sony Pictures and Blumhouse would be producing. It came out in 1983, along with a film adaptation that was directed by John Carpenter. The book centers on a teen whose life goes on a collision course after he buys a used 1958 Plymouth Fury that drives like it has a mind of its own. What We Know: King’s Christine is revving up for a reboot.
She plays an author on assignment who has writer’s block, a theme familiar to those who know King’s work.īrothers Jason and Peter Filardi ( The Craft) are the showrunners. However, doing so means that he will have to confront the terrors and secrets that have haunted his family for generations.
Set in the 1850s, it follows his character, a recently widowed father of three who relocates his family to his small, sleepy town in Maine.
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What We Know: Based on King’s short story “Jerusalem’s Lot” from his 1978 Night Shift collection, this upcoming Epix drama series stars Schitt’s Creek’s Emily Hampshire and Oscar winner Adrien Brody. It was a really fun project.”Īs if the title didn’t give a lot of the plot away, the story follows a man who recently lost his children - to a monster lurking in a closet. However, Woods told in October 2020 that “we’ve got a script that we’re super excited about” and that “I think development is kind of growing and changing and evolving, but it’s been … I don’t know. But, between the coronavirus pandemic’s shutdown of Hollywood and Disney’s acquisition of various Fox properties, delays became inevitable. What We Know: In 2018, A Quiet Place writers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods were tapped to write 20th Century Fox’s film adaptation of King’s 1973 short story (it first appeared in Cavalier magazine but was then incorporated into his 1978 anthology collection, Night Shift.
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Read on for details on every upcoming and new Stephen King movie and TV adaptation. With that in mind, we’ve rounded up a handy list of every movie and TV series based on a Stephen King story or novel that’s either in the works or already scheduled to premiere in the near future. And, thanks in part to the runaway blockbuster success of films like 2017’s Itand it’s 2019 sequel, as well as the TV fandom over shows like HBO’s The Outsider, Hulu’s Castle Rock, and Apple TV+’s miniseries adaptation of Lisey’s Story (stars Julianne Moore and Clive Owen pictured above), it looks like we’re in for another wave of King-mania in the coming years. While some of his decidedly tamer stories have been adapted into beloved classics like Under the Dome, Stand by Me, and The Shawshank Redemption, he remains one of the world’s foremost purveyor of supernatural terror on the big and small screen. For decades, prolific author Stephen King has provided a wealth of material for film and television studios hungry for original projects.
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