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Stephen King’s The Stand gets a series order from CBS All Access

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Some five years after he first became attached to what was then planned as a feature film adaptation (first as a single movie, then as four movies), filmmaker Josh Boone’s (The Fault in Our Stars) adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand is finally moving forward, albeit as a TV series at CBS All Access. Deadline […]

HBO fills out the cast of Stephen King adaptation The Outsider

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Last month it was announced that Ben Mendelsohn (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) has been cast in The Outsider, a HBO TV adaptation of the Stephen King novel of the same name, and now comes word that the show has cast a number of series regulars and recurring guest stars. Set to join Mendelsohn […]

Creepshow TV series to adapt Stephen King’s grisly short story Survivor Type

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Last summer it was announced that The Walking Dead executive producer and makeup effects guru Greg Nicotero is teaming with horror streaming service Shudder for a TV series based upon the 1982 George A. Romero and Stephen King anthology feature Creepshow. The Creeepshow series will retain the anthology approach, and according to Production Weekly, one of […]

Pet Sematary TV spot features a first glimpse of Zelda

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Paramount Pictures has released a new TV spot for the upcoming Stephen King adaptation Pet Sematary which offers us our first brief look at Zelda; watch it here… SEE ALSO: Pet Sematary directors talk about recreating the memorable Zelda scenes SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Pet Sematary here “Based on the seminal horror novel by […]

New image from Pet Sematary featuring John Lithgow’s Jud Crandall

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A new image has arrived online from Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer’s upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s 1983 horror novel Pet Sematary featuring John Lithgow’s Jud Crandall; take a look here… SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Pet Sematary “Based on the seminal horror novel by Stephen King, Pet Sematary follows Dr. Louis Creed (Jason Clarke), who, after […]

Ben Mendelsohn to star in Stephen King’s The Outsider adaptation

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Ben Mendelsohn (Captain Marvel) has joined HBO’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel The Outsider. The series was created by Richard Price (The Night Of), who has also written the script, and Jack Bender (Mr. Mercedes). Mendelsohn will executive produce alongside Price and Jason Bateman (Ozark). The Outsider follows a seemingly straightforward investigation into the gruesome murder of […]

The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep has wrapped filming

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Director Mike Flanagan (Gerald’s Game, The Haunting of Hill House) has taken to Facebook to announced that Doctor Sleep – the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s sequel to The Shining – has now wrapped production ahead of its release in a little over a year from now. So that’s a wrap on Doctor Sleep! It’s […]

Jacob Tremblay joins Stephen King adaptation Doctor Sleep

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According to a report from TMZ, Room and The Predator star Jacob Tremblay has become the latest addition to the cast of The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep, signing on for an unspecified role. The Stephen King adaptation is being directed by Mike Flanagan (Gerald’s Game, The Haunting of Hill House), and sees Ewan McGregor taking […]

Filming wraps on It: Chapter Two

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Coming hot on the heels of the release of the first teaser poster this Halloween, director Andy Muschietti has now taken to Instagram to announce that filming has wrapped on It: Chapter Two, the second instalment of Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema’s hugely successful Stephen King adaptation. “It: Chapter Two was an 86-day roller […]