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IDW adapts Stephen King, Joe Hill and Richard Matheson with Road Rage, check out a preview here

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IDW adapts Joe Hill and Stephen King’s Throttle and Richard Matheson’s Duel this week in the graphic novel Road Rage, which collects the 2012 issues Road Rage: Throttle #1 and #2, plus Road Rage: Duel issues #3 and #4; check out a preview here… On the isolated road of the American highway… terror rides on 18 wheels! […]

Stephen King and Joe Hill’s Throttle heading to the big screen

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Production company A Bigger Boat has optioned the rights to Throttle, a novella from Stephen King and his son Joe Hill, with THR reporting that producer Emile Gladstone has tapped John Scott III (Maggie) to pen the script for a big screen adaptation. Originally published in 2009 as part of a Richard Matheson tribute and inspired […]

Universal bringing Joe Hill’s new horror novella Snapshot 1988 to the big screen

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Universal Pictures beaten out 20th Century Fox to snap up the rights to author Joe Hill’s upcoming horror novella Snapshot 1988, and has tapped Mike Flanagan and Jeff Howard (Ouija 2: Origin of Evil) to pen the script for a movie adaptation from Akiva Goldsman’s Weed Road and Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions. The novella, which […]

IDW collecting Joe Hill’s Tales from the Darkside scripts

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Early last year, it was revealed that The CW was developing a reboot of Tales from the Darkside from Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Joe Hill, and while the series never materialised, IDW Publishing announced a four-issue comic book series based upon scripts Hill produced for the aborted show. And now comes word that the publisher […]

IDW Entertainment and Joe Hill bringing Locke & Key to the small screen

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IDW Entertainment has announced that Locke & Key is finally heading to the screen, with Joe Hill set to write the pilot episode and executive produce a TV series based upon the acclaimed comic book series. “I love this story,” said Hill as part of the announcement. “The seven years I spent working on Locke […]

Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez reviving Tales from the Darkside for IDW

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IDW Publishing has announced that Locke & Key creators Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez are reuniting for a new four-issue series that will reimagine the cult classic horror anthology TV series Tales from the Darkside. “This is the show that could’ve been,” states Hill. “The original Tales from the Darkside was a fun, bleak little […]

Louis Leterrier attached to adapt Joe Hill’s new novel The Fireman

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Deadline is reporting that 20th Century Fox has acquired the rights to Joe Hill’s upcoming novel The Fireman, with Louis Leterrier (The Transporter, Now You See Me) attached to direct. According to the site, the book concerns “a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that will reduce civilization to ashes unless it can be stopped by […]

AMC bringing Joe Hill’s NOS4A2 to the small screen

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Deadline is reporting that AMC is developing a supernatural horror series based upon the bestselling Joe Hill novel NOS4A2, which is to be produced by Michael Eisner’s Tornate TV and AMC Studios. The search is currently underway for a writer to adapt the novel, which was published in 2013. “NOS4A2 centers on Victoria “Vic” McQueen, […]

Cube director adapting Stephen King and Joe Hill novella In the Tall Grass

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Director Vincenzo Natali (Cube, Splice) has signed on to direct an adaptation of In the Tall Grass, a 2012 novella from Stephen King and his son Joe Hill, which centres on a brother and sister on a cross country road trip who find themselves fighting for their lives after reponding to a young boy’s cries […]