It looks like we can add another Stephen King project to the ever expanding list, with Deadline reporting that 20th Century Fox is finalising a deal for The Boogeyman, an adaptation of the King short story released as part of the 1978 Night Shift collection.
The project is being scripted by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, who are hot property after this year’s acclaimed A Quiet Place, which King himself praised as “an extraordinary piece of work”. Shaun Levy, Dan Levine and Dan Cohen are producing.
First published in Cavalier in 1973, The Boogeyman is a fan favourite story which follows a man called Lester Billings who has lost of all his children to a mysterious creature lurking in the closest. It has been adapted numerous times as short films, most notably in 1982, but this new project will mark the first feature version.
Two Stephen King adaptations kicked off principal photography last week in It: Chapter Two and Pet Sematary, while other adaptations in the works include Doctor Sleep, In the Tall Grass, The Gingerbread Girl, The Long Walk, The Tommyknockers, and The Bone Church.
