Another day, another newly-announced Stephen King adaptation…
Sanibel Films – the production company founded by the late George A. Romero and his ex-wife Chris Romero – is teaming with Vertigo Entertainment and Origin Story on an adaptation of King’s 1999 novel The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.
“I’m thrilled that my book is being brought to the screen, and that George’s company is involved,” said King. “Chris Forrest (Romero) has worked long and hard to make this project happen.”
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon follows Trisha, a young girl who ends up separated from her family on the Appalachian Trail and finds herself wandering through the woods. Lost, dehydrated and hungry, Trisha imagines talking to her favourite baseball player Tom Gordon, and comes to suspect that something else may be lurking within the trees.
George A. Romero had planned to adapt the book in the early 2000s, but the project never managed to get off the ground. There’s yet to be any word on a potential writer or director for this latest attempt, but King fans certainly have plenty of upcoming movies to tide them over in the meantime (see It Chapter Two, In the Tall Grass, Doctor Sleep, Salem’s Lot, The Long Walk, From a Buick 8, Roadwork…)
Via EW
