The cast of the long-awaited Stephen King adaptation The Dark Tower has swelled again this week with the news that actor Fran Kranz (The Cabin in the Woods) has joined the project, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Kranz, who has also featured in Dollhouse, Much Ado About Nothing and Mojave, is set to play Pimli, the […]
Spike TV gives series order to Stephen King adaptation The Mist
Back in February it was announced that Spike TV had given the go ahead to a pilot for a new small screen adaptation of Stephen King’s The Mist, and now Deadline is reporting that the network has been impressed enough by to place a straight to series order. “From the brilliant mind of Stephen King and the incredible production […]
Akiva Goldsman writing The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep
It looks like Warner Bros. has decided to press ahead with its plans to adapt Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep, with The Tracking Board reporting that Oscar-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman has been set to write the script for the sequel to The Shining. Doctor Sleep picks up some years after the events at the Overlook Hotel, […]
Newcomer Tom Taylor to play Jake Chambers in The Dark Tower
Variety is reporting that newcomer Tom Taylor (Doctor Foster) has secured the pivotal role of Jake Chambers, protege to Roland Deschain, in Sony and Media Rights Capital’s hotly-anticipated adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower. SEE ALSO: Stephen King discusses The Dark Tower movie adaptation The first Dark Tower movie is set to be directed […]
Stephen King discusses The Dark Tower movie adaptation
Last month, we got word that the long-gestating adaptation of Stephen King’s epic fantasy series The Dark Tower has dragged itself out of development hell, with Nikolaj Arcel (A Royal Affair) set to direct Idris Elba (Luther) as the gunslinger Roland Deschain and Matthew McConaughey as the villainous Man in Black. Yesterday, Stephen King took […]
Spike TV gives pilot order to Stephen King adaptation The Mist
Back in September it was revealed that Dimension Television was developing a small screen adaptation of Stephen King’s 1980 tale The Mist, which was previously brought to the big screen by Frank Darabont back in 2007. Well, the project has now received a pilot order from Spike TV, with network executive Sharon Levy stating that […]
Josh Boone’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand on hold
Over the past couple of days we’ve heard that two Stephen King adaptations finally look to have escaped development hell with both The Dark Tower and It set to move forward; however, it seems the same can’t be said for The Stand, with producer Roy Lee telling Collider that the project is in “a holding […]
Big screen remake of Stephen King’s It to shoot this year, will be R-rated and split into two movies
Having spent a couple of years in development under Cary Fukunaga (True Detective), the planned big screen adaptation of Stephen King’s It found a new director last summer in Andy Muschietti (Mama) following Fukunaga’s departure over creative differences, and now it seems the project is finally gearing up to go into production. “It will hopefully be […]
Samuel L. Jackson circling lead in adaptation of Stephen King’s Revival
According to Entertainment Weekly, Samuel L. Jackson is circling the lead role of Charles Jacobs in the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s 2014 novel Revival, which is to be written and directed by Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars). Revival centres on Jacobs, “a charismatic, small-town preacher who begins experimenting with the supernatural using […]
Stephen King expects The Dark Tower to happen with Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey
Last year, Ron Howard, Akiva Goldsman and Brian Grazer’s planned adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower dragged itself out of development hell, with Sony and Media Rights Capital picking up the ambitious project and setting Nikolaj Arcel (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) to direct. In the past few months we’ve heard that Matthew […]
