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Alex Ross Perry to adapt Stephen King short story Rest Stop

April 19, 2019 by Gary Collinson

Legendary Pictures has tapped Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell) to write and direct an adaptation of Stephen King’s short story Rest Stop, Deadline has revealed.

First published in 2003 and collected in 2008’s Just After Sunset, the movie adaptation is being described as “a propulsive cat and mouse thriller [and] follows the twisted journey of two women after a fateful encounter at a highway rest stop.”

Rest Stop joins an ever-expanding list of King adaptations in the works; this year alone we’ve got the recently-released Pet Sematary along with In the Tall Grass, It: Chapter Two and Doctor Sleep., while this year has already brought news of movies based upon Mile 81 and The Talisman.

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Alex Ross Perry, rest stop, Stephen King

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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