Anonymous Content has snapped up the rights to Sleeping Beauties, an upcoming novel from Stephen King and his son Owen King, and is now in development on a TV adaptation, which is being produced by Michael Sugar and Ashley Zalta (The OA).
The novel is set for publication in September, and the official synopsis reads: “In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent; and while they sleep they go to another place… The men of our world are abandoned, left to their increasingly primal devices. One woman, however, the mysterious Evie, is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Evie a medical anomaly to be studied? Or is she a demon who must be slain?”
Sleeping Beauties becomes the latest King project heading to the screen; this year will see the release of both The Dark Tower and It, while King and Joe Hill’s Throttle has just been optioned by production company A Bigger Boat. Meanwhile, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot is also in development on a shared universe TV series entitled Castle Rock.
Originally published April 6, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
