Another adaptation from Stephen King’s vast body of work is on the way as Deadline reports Fairy Tale is being developed as a 10-episode series by A24 and Fringe creator J.H. Wyman and Bourne and News of the World director Paul Greengrass.
Fairly Tale was previously being developed as a feature film with Greengrass having written a script with plans to direct, but the project fell through. With it being reworked into a series, Greengrass will executive produce and may even direct some or all of the series. His deal, however, is not fully finalized just yet.
Fairy Tale was published in 2022 and marked King’s first full foray into the fantasy genre after being known mostly for his horror novels as well as his epic The Dark Tower series, which itself played in the Western, sci-fi and horror genres. The synopsis for the books reads:
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. Then, when Charlie is 17, he meets a dog named Radar and his aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it.
Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world.
Wyman will serve as showruner while Greengrass will executive produce alongside Saturday Night producer Peter Rice, who brought the project to A24 after Universal dropped Greengrass’ planned feature. Greengrass and Hyman will rework and expand the script into a limited series to properly capture King’s 600-page plus fantasy epic.
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