Benjamin Cavell serves as showrunner of The Stand, which is adapted from King’s apocalyptic version of a world decimated by a plague with the elemental struggle between good and evil at the forefront. Mankind’s fate falls upon 108-year-old Mother Abagail (Whoopi Goldberg) and the survivors, and their worst nightmares are in Randall Flagg (Alexander Skarsgård), the Dark Man, who has unspeakable powers.

The series also features James Marsden as Stu Redman, Odessa Young as Frannie Goldsmith, Jovan Adepo as Larry Underwood, Amber Heard as Nadine Cross, Owen Teague as Harold Lauder, Henry Zaga as Nick Andros, Brad William Henke as Tom Cullen, Irene Bedard as Ray Bretner, Nat Wolff as Lloyd Henreid, Eion Bailey as Weizak, Heather Graham as Rita Blakemoor, Katherine McNamara as Julie Lawry, Fiona Dourif as Ratwoman, Natalie Martinez as Dayna Jurgens, Hamish Linklater as Dr. Jim Ellis, Daniel Sunjata as Cobb, and Greg Kinnear as Glen Bateman.

The nine-episode limited-event series will premiere on December 17 and you can watch the trailer below.

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Such a project is the new remake of Firestarter which is produced by Blumhouse and Universal Pictures. After several years in development, the studio announced the project has found one of his leading stars in Zac Efron.

Presumably, Efron will play Andrew McGee, a father to a pyrokinetic daughter, who is chased by an agency named “The Shop”. McGee and his wife were part of an experiment with a drug called Lot 6. As a result, they have developed telepathic abilities. They then discover their daughter also develops powers but much stronger. She can heat objects to the point of catching on fire.

The new adaptation is directed by Kieth Thomas. Scott Teems who co-wrote Halloween Kills is responsible for the script.

The book was originally adapted to in 1984 and starred Drew Barrymore as the daughter, David Keith in the role of Andrew McGee, and Heather Locklear in her debut role as the wife, Vicky.

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The successful horror novel is heading to cinema with Doctor Sleep’s Mike Flanagan adapting the script with an option to direct, while Trevor Macy is attached to procure the upcoming film.

According to IndieWire, which confirmed the news with a Warner Bros. spokesperson, Revival “spans five decades, opening in a small New England town, where a charismatic minister meets a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. When tragedy strikes the boy’s family, the preacher mocks all religious belief and is banished. The boy has become a musical nomad and a heroin addict by the time the two meet again.”

The latest King novel adapted to the big screen was It and It: Chapter 2. The two films have been the most successful adaptations grossing $700 million and $473 million, respectively, at the worldwide box office. Other films include Carrie, The Shining, Pet Sematary, The Green Mile, Stand by Me, Misery, The Shawshank Redemption, and others. 

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Collider was first to report the news, and the project is in early development at FX with no writer attached yet.

Many of King’s books have been adapted to the screen – Castle Rock just finished their second season on Hulu, The Outsider starring Ben Mendelsohn, Cynthia Erivo, and Jason Bateman will premier on HBO in January 2020, Jerusalem’s Lot is in development at Epix and it will star Adrien Brody, The Dark Half is being made into a movie at MGM, and The Stand is set on CBS All Access.

Carrie has had many adaptations since the 1976 film starring Sissy Spacek came out. The latest adaptation was in 2013, with Chloë Grace Moretz as Carrie and Julianne Moore as Margaret White starring in the film. The 1976 film also had a sequel made in 1999 and a made for TV movie based on Carrie was released in 2002 as well as a Broadway musical in 1988.

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The three join previously announced Alexander Skarsgård, James Marsden, Amber Heard, Odessa Young, Jovan Adepo, Owen Teague, Henry Zaga, Brad William Henke, Whoopi Goldberg, Daniel Sunjata, and Nat Wolff. 

Per TVLine, McNamara will play Julie Lawry, a small-town girl with a wild side who has a run-in with Lloyd (Wolff) in Las Vegas, while Bailey will play Teddy Weizak, a superflu survivor and member of the body crew, alongside Harold (Teague), in Boulder, Colorado. Linklater will play Dr. Ellis, a military colonel and infectious disease specialist who dreams of being the hero who stops the superflu.

Production is currently underway in Vancouver. 

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But aside from teasers, the recent big news about the show is the casting of the face of evil himself. Randall Flagg, also known as the dark man, will be played by Big Little Lies and True Blood’s Alexander Skarsgård.

In the press release announcing his casting, the network wrote: “Also known as ‘the Dark Man,’ his unsettling and ever-changing presence is the embodiment of pure evil. Like Mother Abagail [Whoopi Goldberg], Flagg appears in plague survivors’ dreams but, unlike her divine messaging, his ultimate goal is far more sinister.”

As announced before The Stand will also feature James Marsden, Amber Heard, Odessa Young, Jovan Adepo, Owen Teague, Henry Zaga and Brad William Henke. It is also interesting to note that Alexander’s brother, Bill Skarsgård has recently played another one of KIng’s most infamous villains – Pennywise the murderous clown in IT. 

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The first official trailer for Netflix’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novella is here. 

The horror feature is based on the novella, In the Tall Grass, which the iconic author originally published in two parts in Esquire magazine in 2012 along with his son, Joe Hill. 

The story follows siblings Becky and Cal who get lost in a massive field of grass after they hear the cries of a young boy lost. There they find an entire group of people also lost in a field that has a mind of its own. 

Vincenzo Natali directed and penned the film. In the Tall Grass stars Harrison Gilbertson, Laysla De Oliveira, Avery Whitted, Will Buie Jr., Rachel Wilson, and Patrick Wilson. 

In the Tall Grass drops October 4 on Netflix.  

Watch the trailer below.

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The novel will be adapted for television by David E. Kelley and Jack Bender who will develop the story. Bender will also serve as director of the limited series, while both he and Kelley will executive produce.

“Having the opportunity to work on a new and brilliant book by Stephen King is an absolute privilege,” said Spyglass’ Lauren Whitney. “We are thrilled to collaborate with this dream team, including the incomparable David E. Kelley, and Jack Bender, the architect behind this project, whose extensive directing and executive producing credits speak for themselves. After such a competitive pursuit, we have big plans for The Institute here at Spyglass.”

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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.

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The first official trailer for The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep is finally here. 

The highly anticipated screen adaptation of Stephen King’s 2013 horror novel of the same name stars Ewan McGregor as an adult Danny Torrance, Jack Nicholson’s on-screen son in The Shining. Danny is battling a drinking problem and the emergence of strange powers.

“When I was a kid, I bumped into these things. I don’t know about magic. I always called it the shining,” he says in the trailer. The trailer also flashes iconic scenes from the haunted Overlook Hotel including the old woman in the bathtub, the Grady twins in the hallway and the blood tidal wave.

“We pick up Dan in New Jersey and in the throes of his alcoholism, kind of right at rock bottom is where we meet him,” writer-director Mike Flanagan said. “He’s nomadic, he’s violent, he’s crawled so far into a bottle that there doesn’t seem to be an easy way out. It’s really kind of a strange experience to meet your hero kind at their most awful version of themselves. Structurally, it’s really fascinating, from a writing point of view. You kind of feel like, ‘This is our hero, ladies, and gentlemen, you’re going to meet him puking.’ So, yeah, we pick up Dan at the lowest point of his life, and, more than anything, this is a story about his redemption and trying to avoid repeating the same fate that his father had to deal with, outside of the hotel, just with his own addiction.”

Doctor Sleep hits theaters November 8. 

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Benjamin Cavell serves as showrunner of The Stand, which is adapted from King’s apocalyptic version of a world decimated by a plague with the elemental struggle between good and evil at the forefront. Mankind’s fate falls upon 108-year-old Mother Abagail (Whoopi Goldberg) and the survivors, and their worst nightmares are in Randall Flagg (Alexander Skarsgård), the Dark Man, who has unspeakable powers.

The series also features James Marsden as Stu Redman, Odessa Young as Frannie Goldsmith, Jovan Adepo as Larry Underwood, Amber Heard as Nadine Cross, Owen Teague as Harold Lauder, Henry Zaga as Nick Andros, Brad William Henke as Tom Cullen, Irene Bedard as Ray Bretner, Nat Wolff as Lloyd Henreid, Eion Bailey as Weizak, Heather Graham as Rita Blakemoor, Katherine McNamara as Julie Lawry, Fiona Dourif as Ratwoman, Natalie Martinez as Dayna Jurgens, Hamish Linklater as Dr. Jim Ellis, Daniel Sunjata as Cobb, and Greg Kinnear as Glen Bateman.

The nine-episode limited-event series will premiere on December 17 and you can watch the trailer below.

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Such a project is the new remake of Firestarter which is produced by Blumhouse and Universal Pictures. After several years in development, the studio announced the project has found one of his leading stars in Zac Efron.

Presumably, Efron will play Andrew McGee, a father to a pyrokinetic daughter, who is chased by an agency named “The Shop”. McGee and his wife were part of an experiment with a drug called Lot 6. As a result, they have developed telepathic abilities. They then discover their daughter also develops powers but much stronger. She can heat objects to the point of catching on fire.

The new adaptation is directed by Kieth Thomas. Scott Teems who co-wrote Halloween Kills is responsible for the script.

The book was originally adapted to in 1984 and starred Drew Barrymore as the daughter, David Keith in the role of Andrew McGee, and Heather Locklear in her debut role as the wife, Vicky.

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The successful horror novel is heading to cinema with Doctor Sleep’s Mike Flanagan adapting the script with an option to direct, while Trevor Macy is attached to procure the upcoming film.

According to IndieWire, which confirmed the news with a Warner Bros. spokesperson, Revival “spans five decades, opening in a small New England town, where a charismatic minister meets a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. When tragedy strikes the boy’s family, the preacher mocks all religious belief and is banished. The boy has become a musical nomad and a heroin addict by the time the two meet again.”

The latest King novel adapted to the big screen was It and It: Chapter 2. The two films have been the most successful adaptations grossing $700 million and $473 million, respectively, at the worldwide box office. Other films include Carrie, The Shining, Pet Sematary, The Green Mile, Stand by Me, Misery, The Shawshank Redemption, and others. 

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Collider was first to report the news, and the project is in early development at FX with no writer attached yet.

Many of King’s books have been adapted to the screen – Castle Rock just finished their second season on Hulu, The Outsider starring Ben Mendelsohn, Cynthia Erivo, and Jason Bateman will premier on HBO in January 2020, Jerusalem’s Lot is in development at Epix and it will star Adrien Brody, The Dark Half is being made into a movie at MGM, and The Stand is set on CBS All Access.

Carrie has had many adaptations since the 1976 film starring Sissy Spacek came out. The latest adaptation was in 2013, with Chloë Grace Moretz as Carrie and Julianne Moore as Margaret White starring in the film. The 1976 film also had a sequel made in 1999 and a made for TV movie based on Carrie was released in 2002 as well as a Broadway musical in 1988.

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The three join previously announced Alexander Skarsgård, James Marsden, Amber Heard, Odessa Young, Jovan Adepo, Owen Teague, Henry Zaga, Brad William Henke, Whoopi Goldberg, Daniel Sunjata, and Nat Wolff. 

Per TVLine, McNamara will play Julie Lawry, a small-town girl with a wild side who has a run-in with Lloyd (Wolff) in Las Vegas, while Bailey will play Teddy Weizak, a superflu survivor and member of the body crew, alongside Harold (Teague), in Boulder, Colorado. Linklater will play Dr. Ellis, a military colonel and infectious disease specialist who dreams of being the hero who stops the superflu.

Production is currently underway in Vancouver. 

The post Stephen King’s “The Stand” Adds Three to Cast appeared first on EverydayKoala.

But aside from teasers, the recent big news about the show is the casting of the face of evil himself. Randall Flagg, also known as the dark man, will be played by Big Little Lies and True Blood’s Alexander Skarsgård.

In the press release announcing his casting, the network wrote: “Also known as ‘the Dark Man,’ his unsettling and ever-changing presence is the embodiment of pure evil. Like Mother Abagail [Whoopi Goldberg], Flagg appears in plague survivors’ dreams but, unlike her divine messaging, his ultimate goal is far more sinister.”

As announced before The Stand will also feature James Marsden, Amber Heard, Odessa Young, Jovan Adepo, Owen Teague, Henry Zaga and Brad William Henke. It is also interesting to note that Alexander’s brother, Bill Skarsgård has recently played another one of KIng’s most infamous villains – Pennywise the murderous clown in IT. 

The post “The Stand” kicks off Production on CBS All Access appeared first on EverydayKoala.

The first official trailer for Netflix’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novella is here. 

The horror feature is based on the novella, In the Tall Grass, which the iconic author originally published in two parts in Esquire magazine in 2012 along with his son, Joe Hill. 

The story follows siblings Becky and Cal who get lost in a massive field of grass after they hear the cries of a young boy lost. There they find an entire group of people also lost in a field that has a mind of its own. 

Vincenzo Natali directed and penned the film. In the Tall Grass stars Harrison Gilbertson, Laysla De Oliveira, Avery Whitted, Will Buie Jr., Rachel Wilson, and Patrick Wilson. 

In the Tall Grass drops October 4 on Netflix.  

Watch the trailer below.

The post Watch the Trailer for Netflix’s “In the Tall Grass” appeared first on EverydayKoala.

The novel will be adapted for television by David E. Kelley and Jack Bender who will develop the story. Bender will also serve as director of the limited series, while both he and Kelley will executive produce.

“Having the opportunity to work on a new and brilliant book by Stephen King is an absolute privilege,” said Spyglass’ Lauren Whitney. “We are thrilled to collaborate with this dream team, including the incomparable David E. Kelley, and Jack Bender, the architect behind this project, whose extensive directing and executive producing credits speak for themselves. After such a competitive pursuit, we have big plans for The Institute here at Spyglass.”

The post Stephen King’s “The Institute” is Being Developed as a Limited Series appeared first on EverydayKoala.

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.

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The first official trailer for The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep is finally here. 

The highly anticipated screen adaptation of Stephen King’s 2013 horror novel of the same name stars Ewan McGregor as an adult Danny Torrance, Jack Nicholson’s on-screen son in The Shining. Danny is battling a drinking problem and the emergence of strange powers.

“When I was a kid, I bumped into these things. I don’t know about magic. I always called it the shining,” he says in the trailer. The trailer also flashes iconic scenes from the haunted Overlook Hotel including the old woman in the bathtub, the Grady twins in the hallway and the blood tidal wave.

“We pick up Dan in New Jersey and in the throes of his alcoholism, kind of right at rock bottom is where we meet him,” writer-director Mike Flanagan said. “He’s nomadic, he’s violent, he’s crawled so far into a bottle that there doesn’t seem to be an easy way out. It’s really kind of a strange experience to meet your hero kind at their most awful version of themselves. Structurally, it’s really fascinating, from a writing point of view. You kind of feel like, ‘This is our hero, ladies, and gentlemen, you’re going to meet him puking.’ So, yeah, we pick up Dan at the lowest point of his life, and, more than anything, this is a story about his redemption and trying to avoid repeating the same fate that his father had to deal with, outside of the hotel, just with his own addiction.”

Doctor Sleep hits theaters November 8. 

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