IT: Chapter two is just hitting the screens and we already have another Stephen king based movie to look forward to. The 1999 psychological thriller The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is now getting an adaptation.
It is not a new project. The book was meant to be adapted by filmmaker George Romero who worked with King in the past on The Dark Half and Creepshow but unfortunately, Romero died in 2017 and the project was put on hold. Now the late director’s wife, Chris Romero is picking it up.
Romero will produce the film using her late husband’s company Sanibel Films and in collaboration with the Roy Lee that is behind IT: Chapter two, Jon Berg of Vertigo films and Origin Story’s Ryan Silbert. King himself gave the project his blessing saying: “I’m thrilled that my book is being brought to the screen, and that George’s company is involved. Chris Forrest (Romero) has worked long and hard to make this project happen.”
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon follows a 9-year-old girl named Trisha who gets lost in the woods while hiking with her mother and brother shortly after her mother’s divorce. She starts to hallucinate she is talking with Tom Gordon, her favorite baseball player and begins to cross the line between reality and fantasy believing she must fight a supernatural being.
