It’s no accident that Stephen King is one of the most heavily-adapted writers in horror movie history. From horror gross-outs and intense psychological thrillers to far-out sci-fi romps and ambitious horror epics like It Chapter One and Chapter Two, there’s a King movie or TV show for everyone.
It certainly helps that King is also one of the most prolific and successful writers working today. Since 1974, with the publication of Carrie, his debut novel about a troubled girl with telekinetic powers, King has been raising the bar of weird fiction. He certainly has some of the best human villains and supernatural villains of all-time.
Perhaps it’s his B-movie sensitivity that really makes his ghoulies shine, but its really about how the prose flows in his novels and countless short stories — they aren’t your normal fast-paced reads for the most part. King takes his time building tension and suspense. Like a boy slowly turning the crank on a jack-on-the-box, King masterfully works his way to the final moment of horror. No one has painted a page with more terror than the master of pop horror himself.
That’s why he’s so deeply rooted in our culture, infiltrating every genre of entertainment known to man. From e-books to comics to musicals, King has conquered them all. Besides books, King’s work has seen MAJOR success in movies and TV. The Shawshank Redemption is an instant classic of mystery and drama, while Carrie continues to scare us all half to death.
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And he’s not done yet.
Here’s a list of all the upcoming movies and TV shows adapted from the work of Stephen King, starting with projects with official release dates:
It Chapter Two – Sept. 6, 2019
The new film adaptation of Stephen King’s It, as you may already know, is being split into two films. The first arrived to rave reviews. Andy Muschietti has directed the first part, and he’s on board for the second film of the story too.
It Chapter Two will once again star the Losers’ Club, this time as adults who are forced to return to Derry, Maine to stop Pennywise the Clown once and for all. The adult cast is all set with James McAvoy as Bill Denbrough, Jessica Chastain as Beverly Marsh, Bill Hader as Richie Tozier, Jay Ryan as Ben Hanscom, James Ransone as Eddie Kaspbrak, and Andy Bean will play Stan Uris. Pennywise will once again be played by Bill Skarsgard.
Related Article: It Ending Explained
Creepshow TV Series – Sept. 26, 2019
Creepshow is back in a big way and headed to the realm of peak television! Shudder, the premium streaming service owned by cabler AMC, is bringing back the Stephen King/George Romero-crafted Creepshow horror anthology film as a television series.
AMC tapped talent from its own tent, appointing The Walking Dead executive producer and legendary effects maestro Greg Nicotero to serve as director, executive producer, and overall supervisor for the small screen endeavor. The cast includes Tricia Helfer, David Arquette, Dana Gould Adrienne Barbeau, DJ Qualls, Jeffrey Combs and more.
Best of all, both Stephen King and Joe Hill contributed stories to the anthology series. Joe R. Lansdale, who wrote Bubba Ho-Tep, is also involved, as is legendary Batman: The Animated Series writer Paul Dini.
Doctor Sleep – Nov. 8, 2019
An unlikely sequel is coming to the big screen. Doctor Sleep is set to arrive in 2020 from Warner Bros. Pictures. The film will be written and directed by Mike Flanagan (Gerald’s Game).
Doctor Sleep is King’s sequel to The Shining, taking place many years after the original events at the Overlook Hotel and starring an adult Danny Torrance. Ewan McGregor has been cast as the adult Danny Torrance. Rebecca Ferguson, Zahn McClarnon, Kyliegh Curran, Bruce Greenwood, Emily Alyn Lind, Carl Lumbly, Alex Essoe, and Jocelin Donahue round out the cast.
We will keep you posted as we learn more!
The Stand – 2020
It’s been a long gestation period for Josh Boone’s (The New Mutants) adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand, but we finally have an update: it’s now becoming a 10-hour limited series at CBS All Access, the network’s subscription service.
Boone, who is set to direct the series, will also executive produce and pen the script with Ben Cavell (Homeland). And they’re both working with King’s enthusiastic approval.
A series is quite the change from what Boone originally intended for his King passion project (Boone is a big fan of the writer’s work): an extremely faithful four-part movie franchise that would explore the 823-page tome in full. That idea seems to have been scrapped.
James Marsden (Westworld) will play the lead role of Stu Redman.
The Outsider – 2020
The Outsider is becoming a limited series at HBO, which has given the adaptation a 10-episode order.
The story of The Outsider puts a mind-blowingly monstrous twist on traditional murder fiction. Here, police detective Ralph Anderson fields an investigation in the fictional Oklahoma town of Flint City that upends the local populace when a well-liked local man, Terry Maitland, is arrested for the shockingly malicious murder of an 11-year-old boy. While a mountain of evidence – including DNA and fingerprints – make the case seem open-and-shut, Maitland vehemently swears his innocence; an idea that gains momentum when his alibi – of being out of town at a conference – checks out, leading the investigation to a potentially supernatural turn.
Ben Mendelsohn is set to star. Joining him are Cynthia Erivo, Bill Camp, Mare Winningham, Paddy Considine, Julianne Nicholson, Yul Vazquez, Jeremy Bobb, Marc Menchaca, Hettienne Park, and Michael Esper.
Onboard as executive producers are Richard Price (HBO’s The Night Of, The Deuce), Jack Bender (Mr. Mercedes, Lost), and Jason Bateman via his Aggregate Films, also joined by Temple Hill Entertainment and MRC. Bateman will direct the first two episodes.
Related Article: The Shining and the Immortality of Evil
The Bone Church – In Development
The Bone Church is set to be developed as a television series by Cedar Park Entertainment – the company of Chris Long and David Ayer – after having acquired the rights. The Stephen King-penned source material here is a narrative poem that was originally written back in the 1960s, which, decades later, would be published in the November, 2009 issue of Playboy magazine. King subsequently revised it and published it as part of his 2015 short fiction collection, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams.
King’s The Bone Church is told from the point of view of a disheveled survivor of a harrowing ordeal who is demanding to be bought drinks for his tales. The story depicts – in a poetic manner – a terrifying jungle expedition to locate a forbidden mythical site, called the Bone Church. While 32 people set out on the trip, only three returned, with hints that madness made retroactive victims of the rest, save for the whiskey-demanding narrator. Consequently, just as the television medium managed to turn King’s thin 2005 mystery novel, The Colorado Kid, into the 5-season Syfy series, Haven, the bare-bones poem premise of The Bone Church will require some narrative meat from its creative forces.
While The Bone Church has yet to narrow down a showrunner, the rights-acquiring Chris Long and David Ayer are onboard as executive producers. The project won’t even be the only Stephen King project for Long, who also serves as EP for the (imminently-returning) Audience/DirecTV series, Mr. Mercedes. No premiere date or cast has been announced.
The Dark Tower TV Series – In Development
The Dark Tower TV series is in development at Amazon. While the series was originally planned to tie into the 2017 film, that is no longer the plan. Instead, it will be a complete reboot set during Roland’s early adventures as told in Wizard and Glass.
Glen Mazzara, who previously helmed The Walking Dead season 3, has been brought on as showrunner. Akiva Goldsman, who produced and co-wrote the film adaptation, will executive produce, along with Jeff Pinkner, Ron Howard, and Brian Grazer. Nikolaj Arcel, who directed The Dark Tower movie, and screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen wrote a script for the pilot and will also executive produce.
Sam Strike (Nightflyers) has been cast as Roland the Gunslinger and Jasper Pääkkönen (Vikings) is believed to be playing the Man in Black. Jerome Flynn (Game of Thrones) in an undisclosed role, although some fans have speculated that he’s playing Eldred Jonas, leader of the Big Coffin Hunters!
Related Article: A Reading Guide to Stephen King’s Dark Tower Universe
Drunken Fireworks – In Development
Stephen King and James Franco are going to start fireworks at the box office.
The Future World actor and director will be starring in (and possibly directing) King’s page-to-screen adaptation of his short story Drunken Fireworks, written by Matt Rager (who also worked on Franco-directed films As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, and In Dubious Battle). Drunken Fireworks is produced by Franco alongside Vince Jolivette, Doug McKay, Robert Kaplan, Marc Senter, and Nathan Grubbs of Franco’s Rabbit Bandini Productions and Rubicon Entertainment.
Drunken Fireworks is the darkly comic story of “accident rich” mechanic Alden McCausland (Franco), whose windfall of lottery winnings along with a surprise life insurance policy payout makes him wealthy enough to take liquor-soaked lakeside vacations in the summer. There isn’t much scandal in the lazy town in Castle County, Maine—until Alden sets off a few sparklers on Fourth of July weekend. It ends up getting him entangled in a heated annual fireworks competition with retired “real rich” mob boss Nicky Serrano, kingpin of the notorious Massimo crime family, whose enormous white mansion across the lake is “paid for by ‘ill-gotten gains,’” in the words of Alden’s mother.
After Nicky literally outshines Alden with his fireworks display in what has come to be called “The Fourth of July Arms Race,” Alden swears he will beat him the following year. So begins a vicious cycle that illustrates to what lengths he and the Mafia-backed Nicky will go to illuminate Castle County—and the ultimate prize could be a prison cell.
No word on an official release date.
Eyes of the Dragon – In Development
Stephen King’s epic fantasy novel, The Eyes of the Dragon, is in development as a TV series at Hulu. A departure from King’s usual horror fare, the novel tells the story of murder, dark magic, and a contested throne set in the kingdom of Delain and features the writer’s most infamous recurring villain, Flagg.
The pilot is being written by Seth Grahame-Smith (Dark Shadows), who is also in place as showrunner. It’s being produced by Fox 21, along with Grahame-Smith, David Katzenberg, Bill Haber, Roy Lee, and Jon Berg.
No info on a production date or premiere date just yet, as the project is still in early days.
From a Buick 8 – In Development
Studio Hyde Park Entertainment has optioned King’s 2002 novel, From a Buick 8, setting William Brent Bell to write and direct the film adaptation. Bell comes into the project off the 2016 twist-brandishing horror film, The Boy, which starred The Walking Dead’s Lauren Cohan. He’s previously written/directed horror films Wer, The Devil Inside, Stay Alive and Sparkle and Charm.
From a Buick 8 – which derives its title from the 1965 Bob Dylan B-Side “From a Buick 6” – is thematically similar to King’s Christine, his 1983 novel that was adapted that same year with director John Carpenter’s movie about a possessed 1958 Plymouth Fury.
By contrast, this supernatural tale is recalled in a ghost story-style flashback narrative. The story, set in Western Pennsylvania, centers on Ned Wilcox, whose state trooper father was killed years earlier while answering a call about an abandoned 1953 Buick Roadmaster. However, when the now-adult Ned discovers said Buick kept hidden in the barracks of his father’s Troop D, a mystery begins to unfold about the car’s connection to his death and, eventually, an intrusion into another dimension.
No release date has been set as of yet.
Firestarter – In Development
Stephen King’s 1980 novel Firestarter is going to be adapted as a feature film for the second time. The news was revealed by producer Jason Blum (Get Out, Split, The Purge, just about every horror film out these last few years) and the man who will direct the picture, Akiva Goldsman.
King’s novel focused on a little girl named Charlie who develops the ability to start fires and control the flames with her mind. A secret government agency known as the Shop — which injected Charlie’s parents with the drug that gave them moderate telekinetic abilities but passed along to Charlie her much more immense powers — wants to use Charlie’s gift as a weapon.
No release date or casting has been announced for this one.
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon – In Development
An adaptation of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is in the works, although the project is still in its early days, according to THR, and the search for a writer to pen the script is underway.
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon tells the surprisingly uplifting story of a 9-year-old girl named Trisha who is lost in the woods after straying from her mother and brother during a hiking trip. Forced to survive on her own, Trisha is inspired by her favorite baseball player, former Red Sox pitcher Tom Gordon, to face off against the God of the Lost, an evil entity which she believes is hunting her. Needless to say, fans of the It movies’ resourceful young heroes, the Losers’ Club, should keep an eye out for this one.
The adaptation is being produced by Chris Romero, the former wife of director George A. Romero, as well as It‘s Roy Lee, Jon Berg of Vertigo Films, and Ryan Silbert of Origin Story. Interestingly enough, the Romeros have long been involved with an adaptation of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. The legendary horror director, who’d previously collaborated with King on Creepshow and The Dark Half, tried to make the movie in the early 2000s before the project ended up in development hell. George Romero passed away in 2017.
Hearts in Atlantis – In Development
Director Johannes Roberts (The Other Side of the Door) will adapt Stephen King’s novella, “Hearts in Atlantis,” for the big screen. Roberts is adapting the story with frequent collaborator Ernest Riera, who co-wrote The Other Side of the Door and shark thriller 47 Meters Down.
This new project is not to be confused with the 2001 film Hearts in Atlantis, which starred Anthony Hopkins in a retelling of two other novellas in Stephen King’s collection of the same name. That movie adapted “Low Men in Yellow Coats” and “Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling.”
“Hearts in Atlantis” is a coming-of-age story that takes place at the University of Maine during the Vietnam War era. Main character Peter lives in an all-male dormitory where all of the students have become obsessed with playing Hearts. This obsession has serious implications for both their academic and personal lives.
In the Tall Grass – In Development
Stephen King and Joe Hill’s “In the Tall Grass,” a short story originally published in Esquire and then released as an ebook, is getting the movie treatment from Splice director Vincenzo Natali.
The story begins with a brother and sister driving down the Kansas countryside when they suddenly hear a boy screaming for help in a field. Then, as you’d expect from this father-son duo, all hell breaks loose…
The cast includes Patrick Wilson (The Conjuring), Laysla De Oliveira (iZombie), and Harrison Gilbertson (Picnic at Hanging Rock). The film will arrive sometime in 2019.
The Jaunt – In Development
In 2015, it was announced that Stephen King’s sci-fi short story about teleportation gone wrong, “The Jaunt,” was being optioned for film by Plan B, Brad Pitt’s production company.
Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti, the duo behind the It remake, were attached to the project, but that probably isn’t the case anymore since the Muschiettis moved on to the uber-successful It franchise. No studio has been set for the film, but Plan B has a first-look deal with New Regency and RatPac Entertainment.
“The Jaunt” takes place in the 24th century. Teleportation between worlds is now possible. The only catch is that travelers must be under anesthesia so that they’re not conscious for the trip. Being awake is bad news. You can probably guess what happens.
The story was first published in 1981 in Twilight Zone Magazine, and it was later collected in 1985’s Skeleton Crew, his second short story collection. It’s a short little sci-fi tale and definitely worth the read. Don’t wait for the movie!
Joyland – In Development
Freeform will continue to tout its evolution after its recent rebranding from ABC Family, now set to take the Stephen King plunge with a TV series adapting the author’s 2013 horror novel, Joyland. The novel is a hybrid of a whodunit murder mystery and a ghost story, following the exploits of a college student named Devin, whose summer job at a North Carolina amusement park leads him – and friends Tom and Erin – to investigate a legacy of murder in the tourist town connected to a dying child’s bond with the ghost of one of the victims.
While it doesn’t appear that King himself will be involved with Joyland, screenwriter Cyrus Nowrasteh (Hawaii Five-0, The Young Messiah) will adapt the novel for television. The series will be executive-produced by Bill Haber’s Ostar Productions (The CW’s Valor), along with Chris Pena (Jane the Virgin) and Cyrus Nowrasteh (The Stoning of Soraya M).
Lisey’s Story – In Development
J.J. Abrams’ production company Bad Robot is filling out its growing list of TV projects for Apple’s streaming service, including Lisey’s Story, an adaptation of Stephen King‘s 2006 novel.
Apple has ordered eight episodes of the romantic horror series and, in a surprising move, King is planning to pen all the episodes himself. Joining King as executive producers on Lisey’s Story will be Abrams himself and Julianne Moore, who has also now been confirmed to lead the cast.
The TV version of Lisey’s Story is being described as “a deeply personal thriller that follows Lisey (Moore) two years following the death of her husband. The story explores a series of events that causes her to begin facing amazing realities about her husband that she had repressed and forgotten.”
The Long Walk – In Development
Suffer the teenage boys. That’s pretty much what King (writing as Richard Bachman — his infamous and much more vicious alter-ego) is all about in this novel. The Long Walk takes place in a dystopian future where the totalitarian government of the USA makes 100 teenage boys participate in a sick televised contest: a walking contest that only one kid will survive.
If you guessed that anyone who isn’t the winner is shot dead by the army or dies of thirst/fatigue, then you guessed right. If you don’t keep moving forward, you die.
King specialist Frank Darabont, who has adapted and directed three of King’s works (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and The Mist), owned the rights to The Long Walk for years, although he never was able to get the novel out of development.
Now New Line has picked up the option and is hungry – like a lot of studios these days – to get more King material into the pipeline. Screenwriter James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider-Man), who has been on his own personal quest to get The Long Walk made for more than a decade, is penning the script, but it’s too early to talk about things like a director, cast or start of filming.
Mile 81 – In Development
Mile 81 is getting the movie treatment, A simple plot description of Mile 81 might make one dismiss it as “the other Stephen King story about an evil car.” However, unlike Christine, the popular 1983 novel and same-year film about a malevolently possessed 1958 Plymouth Fury, this King car thriller presents itself more as a mysterious survival thriller centered on a 12-year-old protagonist named Pete, who, joined by his brother and a small group of survivors, is forced to hole-up in a remote Maine rest stop as they are attacked by a killer station wagon.
Spearheading this King big screen adaptation endeavor is Alistair Legrand, the writer/director of the 2017 horror-thriller, Clinical, and the 2015 sci-fi-horror effort, The Diabolical. Likewise, Legrand is set to assume the director’s chair for Mile 81, working off a script that he co-wrote with his repertory writing partner, Luke Harvis, adapting the King story.
No info on when filming will begin on this project.
My Pretty Pony – In Development
Tobin Bell (Saw) and Noah Jupe (Suburbicon) will star in the film adaptation of the Stephen King story “My Pretty Pony.” The film will be directed by Luke Jaden and produced by Josh Boone, who’s working on his own set of King adaptations, including Revival and The Stand.
“My Pretty Pony,” which was first published in 1989 and later collected in Nightmares & Dreamscapes, tells the story of a dying old man who gives his young grandson his pocketwatch and instructs him on the nature of time. It’s a fairly docile story when compared to some of King’s more famous tales.
The story was originally written for a novel under King’s Richard Bachman pseudonym before the writer scrapped the book and decided to keep the story. “My Pretty Pony” was previously adapted into a Dollar Baby in 2009. The short film was directed by Mikhail Tank and starred Paul Marin. If you don’t know what a Dollar Baby is, you can read way more about it here.
Shooting for “My Pretty Pony” will take place in Michigan this spring. No release date has been announced.
N. – In Development
King’s novella, “N.,” is set to become a TV series from Gaumont TV. The show won’t be called “N.,” though. Instead, the project will be titled 8.
“N.” is the story of a man who has been diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder. But in true King fashion, something way more sinister might be behind the man’s suffering, as he becomes increasingly obsessed with a Stonehendge-like formation of stones in Maine that may or may not be a secret portal to a dimension full of monsters. Soon, his “delusions” begin to affect those he tells of the portal, including his psychiatrist.
The tale is truly Lovecraftian in nature, but King has said that his main influence was Arthur Machen’s novella “The Great God Pan,” which the author has called “one of the best horror stories ever written.”
David F. Sandberg, who recently helmed Lights Out and Annabelle: Creation, will direct the pilot. Andrew Barrer and Gabe Ferrari, writers of Ant-Man and the Wasp, are penning the script.
No release date has been set for 8.
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Rest Stop – In Development
Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell) is writing and directing this short story adaptation for Legendary Pictures. “Rest Stop” is a tale about a chance meeting between a writer and a woman in need at a rest stop in Florida and the dark secret they have to keep after their encounter. Perry’s movie is described as a “propulsive cat and mouse thriller, the plot follows the twisted journey of two women after a fateful encounter at a highway rest stop,” which means that means that the director is probably changing a few things about the short story.
Revival – In Development
Josh Boone, The Fault in Our Stars director who plans to helm a film adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand, will first adapt another King novel – the more recent Revival, the 2014 novel about a preacher turned faith healer who opens up a portal to a much darker place than he could possibly imagine. Mixing the work of horror writer and mystic Arthur Machen with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Revival is a horrific treat among King’s more contemporary offerings.
Producer Michael De Luca and King himself are on board with Boone’s latest project, and the director has already submitted the script to Universal, who has first-look rights for an adaptation of the novel. Boone plans to make this film before he sets out for The Stand, which will take much longer to make since it’s a sprawling novel with a very high word count and multiple storylines. The director will need a lot of time to make this one right.
No word on the rest of the cast or a release date just yet, but we’ll keep you updated!
‘Salem’s Lot – In Development
Yet another Stephen King novel has been tapped for a modern adaptation as It screenwriter Gary Dauberman is set to pen an adaptation of Stephen King’s classic vampire novel, Salem’s Lot.
What’s really catching everyone’s attention, though, is the fact that James Wan is producing the film alongside Roy Lee and Mark Wolper. As of this writing, none of the people officially involved with the project have been signed on to direct. However, there have been loose rumors for quite some time now that Wan is interested in directing a Salem’s Lot movie.
While it’s a little strange that Wan wouldn’t be named as the director at this time if that was the studio’s plans, it’s not impossible that he could agree to direct at a later date. The only upcoming film that he’s set to direct is Aquaman 2, and that isn’t expected to come out until at least 2022. As for Dauberman, he only has one directing credit to his name (the upcoming Annabelle Comes Home), so it’s also possible that the studio is waiting to see how that film does before moving forward with their search for a director.
As you’ve probably gathered, production on Salem’s Lot has only recently begun. That means that you shouldn’t expect to see it hit the big screen for quite some time.
Sleeping Beauties – In Development
Sleeping Beauties, the novel by King and his son Owen King, is being turned into a TV series by Anonymous Content.
The novel tells the story of a nightmare near future where women suffer from a horrific sleeping disease and how this affects the men of a small Appalachian town and a women who is mysteriously immune to the disease.
Here’s the full synopsis:
In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?
In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent; and while they sleep they go to another place … The men of our world are abandoned, left to their increasingly primal devices. One woman, however, the mysterious Evie, is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Evie a medical anomaly to be studied? Or is she a demon who must be slain?
Set in a small Appalachian town whose primary employer is a women’s prison, Sleeping Beauties is a wildly provocative, gloriously absorbing father/son collaboration between Stephen King and Owen King.
Now, THIS is something we’d love to see on TV.
The series will be exec produced by Michael Sugar and Ashley Zalta, who also collaborated on The OA and Maniac. No premiere date has been set.
Suffer the Little Children – In Development
The movie based on this short story from 1972 was announced back in 2017 after It Chapter One became the most successful horror movie of all time, but we’ve not heard much about it since. Sean Carter (Keep Watching) is writing and directing the film, with Sean Carter is writing and directing, with Craig Flores, Nicolas Chartier, and Sriram Das producing.
The Talisman – In Development
Stephen King and Peter Straub’s fan-favorite fantasy novel, The Talisman, is being adapted for the big screen by Amblin Entertainment. The Handmaid’s Tale veteran Mike Barker is set to direct from a script by Chris Sparling (Buried).
The Talisman tells the story of a 12-year-old boy named Jack Sawyer, who tries to save his mother from dying of cancer by finding a mysterious crystal known as “the Talisman.” His quest leads him into The Territories, a sort of parallel universe of our own that’s full of dangers. King co-wrote the novel with horror master Peter Straub (Ghost Story) as well as a sequel called Black House.
Frank Marshall is producing and Michael Wright is exec producing.
No release date has been set for The Talisman, but we’ll update this piece as soon as we know more about the project!
The Tommyknockers – In Development
Previously James Wan (Aquaman) and Roy Lee (It) have signed up to produce a film adaptation of King’s novel, The Tommyknockers, and Universal has won the rights for the project, beating out Sony and Netflix. Now we know who the screenwriter will be, as Wan has tapped Jeremy Slater to script it after Slater previously created and oversaw the writing of Fox’s The Exorcist TV series. Slater also worked on the scripts for The Lazarus Project and 2015’s Fantastic Four.
The Tommyknockers is about an alien spacecraft uncovered in the woods of Haven, Maine that begins to infect the residents’ dreams and knock out their teeth. It also makes some dangerously, inhumanly smart.
The movie will be executive produced by Larry Sanitsky, who made the 1993 television miniseries adaptation that starred Jimmy Smits and Marg Helgenberger.
NBC announced it would adapt The Tommyknockers into a series in 2013, but that would appear to be dead now. No release date has been set.
John Saavedra is an associate editor at Den of Geek. Read more of his work here. Follow him on Twitter @johnsjr9.