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The Stephen King adaptations just keep coming, not that we’re complaining. The newest adaptation on its way is The Running Man, which will be developed and directed by Last Night in Soho‘s Edgar Wright for Paramount. Michael Becall (Inglorious Bastards, 21 Jump Street) will be writing the script, which will more closely follow King’s book than the 1987 adaptation that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger did. The 1982 book, published under King’s pseudonym, Richard Bachman, follows protagonist Ben Richards as he participates in the game show “The Running Man” that features contestants being chased by “Hunters” out to kill them. Simon Kinberg, Audrey Chon, and Nira Park are producing the feature. Here’s a look back at the trailer for The Running Man (1987).
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Stephen King adaptations continue to roll in, not that we’re complaining. The latest film version of a King tale comes from Stories to Tell in the Dark and Trollhunter director André Øvredal’s who is adapting dystopian The Long Walk. Word is King himself has read the script by James Vanderbilt and given it a thumbs up. After hit road blocks due to the COVID pandemic, the film is finally moving forward. Øvredal recently gave an update via ComingSoon: “It’s alive and well and moving along. I guess in the end, he just didn’t choose to do it, I actually don’t even know if he ever had a script. This script was written on spec by James Vanderbilt when he did not even have the rights to it, he just wrote it out of pure love for the book, and in the end, suddenly the rights were open and he was able to go to King with his script and say,
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Man, filmmaker Andy Muschietti really loves Stephen King, but don’t we all? Following the adaptation of King’s IT with IT:Chapter Two which is currently in theaters, director Muschietti has now signed on to adapt another King story written under the name Richard Bachman, titled Roadwork. He has also confirmed that he is still attached to the film adaptation of King’s short story The Jaunt. Roadwork takes place in an unnamed Midwestern city in the seventies. Grieving over the death of his son and the disintegration of his marriage, a man is driven to mental instability when he learns that both his home and his workplace are being demolished to make way for a connection to an interstate highway. Originally published in Twilight Zone Magazine in 1981, before being included in Skeleton Crew, The Jaunt is set in the 24th century where mankind has created instant teleportation known as “jaunting”. Unfortunately, travelers who make the leap while conscious either die or
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’s André Øvredel is set to direct the New Line’s film adaptation of Stephen King’s The Long Walk, Deadline reports. Originally published back in 1979 under King’s pseudonym Richard Bachman, the tale is set in the dystopian future where 100 teenage boys embark on a competition annually known as “The Long Walk”. They must maintain a speed of over four miles an hour or die. If they receive more than three warnings they die. But the last one standing is set for life. James Vanderbilt, who penned the script, will be producing alongside Bradley Fischer and William Sherak. Øvredal also directed the fantastically frightening supernatural film The Autopsy of Jane Doe and the upcoming film Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, co-written and produced by Guillermo del Toro, which arrive in theaters on August 9 from CBS Films.
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The Stephen King adaptations just keep coming, not that we’re complaining. The newest adaptation on its way is The Running Man, which will be developed and directed by Last Night in Soho‘s Edgar Wright for Paramount. Michael Becall (Inglorious Bastards, 21 Jump Street) will be writing the script, which will more closely follow King’s book than the 1987 adaptation that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger did. The 1982 book, published under King’s pseudonym, Richard Bachman, follows protagonist Ben Richards as he participates in the game show “The Running Man” that features contestants being chased by “Hunters” out to kill them. Simon Kinberg, Audrey Chon, and Nira Park are producing the feature. Here’s a look back at the trailer for The Running Man (1987).
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Stephen King adaptations continue to roll in, not that we’re complaining. The latest film version of a King tale comes from Stories to Tell in the Dark and Trollhunter director André Øvredal’s who is adapting dystopian The Long Walk. Word is King himself has read the script by James Vanderbilt and given it a thumbs up. After hit road blocks due to the COVID pandemic, the film is finally moving forward. Øvredal recently gave an update via ComingSoon: “It’s alive and well and moving along. I guess in the end, he just didn’t choose to do it, I actually don’t even know if he ever had a script. This script was written on spec by James Vanderbilt when he did not even have the rights to it, he just wrote it out of pure love for the book, and in the end, suddenly the rights were open and he was able to go to King with his script and say,
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Man, filmmaker Andy Muschietti really loves Stephen King, but don’t we all? Following the adaptation of King’s IT with IT:Chapter Two which is currently in theaters, director Muschietti has now signed on to adapt another King story written under the name Richard Bachman, titled Roadwork. He has also confirmed that he is still attached to the film adaptation of King’s short story The Jaunt. Roadwork takes place in an unnamed Midwestern city in the seventies. Grieving over the death of his son and the disintegration of his marriage, a man is driven to mental instability when he learns that both his home and his workplace are being demolished to make way for a connection to an interstate highway. Originally published in Twilight Zone Magazine in 1981, before being included in Skeleton Crew, The Jaunt is set in the 24th century where mankind has created instant teleportation known as “jaunting”. Unfortunately, travelers who make the leap while conscious either die or
Continue reading →
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’s André Øvredel is set to direct the New Line’s film adaptation of Stephen King’s The Long Walk, Deadline reports. Originally published back in 1979 under King’s pseudonym Richard Bachman, the tale is set in the dystopian future where 100 teenage boys embark on a competition annually known as “The Long Walk”. They must maintain a speed of over four miles an hour or die. If they receive more than three warnings they die. But the last one standing is set for life. James Vanderbilt, who penned the script, will be producing alongside Bradley Fischer and William Sherak. Øvredal also directed the fantastically frightening supernatural film The Autopsy of Jane Doe and the upcoming film Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, co-written and produced by Guillermo del Toro, which arrive in theaters on August 9 from CBS Films.
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