Deadline is reporting that David Ayer and Chris Long’s Cedar Park Entertainment have picked up the TV rights to The Bone Church, a narrative poem penned by Stephen King in the 1960s, which he subsequently revised and published in his 2015 short story collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams.
The story follows “an adventurer who organizes an expedition deep into a vast jungle land to locate the mythic Bone Church. They discover a secret not meant for the eyes of strangers. Only three of the 32 travelers escaped with their lives in a tale narrated by one of the survivors, who tells stories from a bar stool to patrons who’ll buy him drinks.”
The project extends the relationship between King and Chris Long, who served as an executive producer on Audience Network’s acclaimed Mr. Mercedes adaptation.
A host of Stephen King-related projects are currently in the works for both the big and small screen; in terms of features, we have It: Chapter Two, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep and In the Tall Grass all in development, and on the TV front Mr. Mercedes has been renewed for a second season, with Castle Rock premiering on Hulu later this year and The Dark Tower spinoff Wizard and Glass also in the pipeline.
