The Fault in Our Stars director Josh Boone is expected to begin shooting 20th Century Fox’s X-Men spinoff New Mutants in the Spring, but it seems he’s already got one eye on his next project – an adaptation of the 2014 Stephen King novel Revival – and has Russell Crowe attached to star.
“I have a good relationship with Stephen King, so when I wanted to adapt his novel Revival I really just went and asked him,” said Boone in an interview with Creative Screenwriting. “I was able to write it in a very pleasant bubble and we attached Russell Crowe. I plan to make that right after New Mutants.”
“Whereas I wrote Revival it in a bubble in a month, did a rewrite a few months later that took two weeks, and haven’t touched it since,” he continued. “We just went and put the money and cast together. It’s certainly the better way to do it, but to get the opportunity to do these big properties [like New Mutants] you have to go through a much longer process to get to the same end result.”
Boone was previously attached to another Stephen King adaptation, having spent a couple of years developing a big screen version of The Stand, before the project was put on hold.
Back in February, Samuel L. Jackson was mentioned as a potential lead for Revival, which follows Charles Jacobs, a charismatic, small-town preacher who begins experimenting with the supernatural using electricity after his wife and child are killed in an accident.”
H/T Marco Tagore
Originally published December 15, 2016. Updated April 16, 2018.
