Deadline is reporting that It star Chosen Jacobs is set for a return to the world of Stephen King, having signed on to appear in the new TV series Castle Rock. Jacobs, who played the character of Mike Hanlon in last year’s hugely successful horror film, will portray Wendell Deaver, the son of Henry Deaver (Moonlight’s […]
Stephen King’s The Bone Church heading to the small screen
Deadline is reporting that David Ayer and Chris Long’s Cedar Park Entertainment have picked up the TV rights to The Bone Church, a narrative poem penned by Stephen King in the 1960s, which he subsequently revised and published in his 2015 short story collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. The story follows “an adventurer who […]
Castle Rock TV spot released ahead of Super Bowl
As we get closer to the Super Bowl and the onslaught of movie ads that come with it, Hulu has released their Super Bowl spot for the upcoming Stephen King and J.J. Abrams series Castle Rock. The series stars André Holland (Moonlight), Melanie Lynskey (Togetherness) , Sissy Spacek (Carrie), Bill Skarsgård (It), Jane Levy (Suburgatory), Scott […]
Gerald’s Game director to helm The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep
In the last couple of years we’ve seen a steady output of adaptations from famed author Stephen King, from It and The Dark Tower to the upcoming Castle Rock television series. And now there is yet another King adaptation on the way from Warner Bros. – Doctor Sleep, the sequel to one of his most famous novels The Shining, with the studio […]
Jack Huston and Maximiliano Hernandez cast in Mr. Mercedes season 2
With production on the second series of Mr. Mercedes set to get underway in South Carolina next month, Deadline is reporting that Jack Huston (Ben-Hur) and Maximiliano Hernandez (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) have joined the cast of the Stephen King adaptation. The second season will continue its adaptation of King’s Bill Hodges Trilogy – […]
Blu-ray Review – It (2017)
It, 2017. Directed by Andy Muschietti. Starring Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, Nicholas Hamilton, and Bill Skarsgard. SYNOPSIS: A group of bullied kids band together when a monster, taking the appearance of a clown, begins hunting children. I saw the original miniseries of It when I […]
A director’s cut of Stephen King’s It is coming in 2018, deleted scenes detailed
With a source novel that’s 1138 pages in length, Andy Muschietti’s blockbusting adaptation of Stephen King’s It was always going to have its fair share of deleted scenes, and now that the biggest horror film of all time is set to hit home entertainment, we’re getting plenty of details about what was left on the […]
IDW adapts Stephen King, Joe Hill and Richard Matheson with Road Rage, check out a preview here
IDW adapts Joe Hill and Stephen King’s Throttle and Richard Matheson’s Duel this week in the graphic novel Road Rage, which collects the 2012 issues Road Rage: Throttle #1 and #2, plus Road Rage: Duel issues #3 and #4; check out a preview here… On the isolated road of the American highway… terror rides on 18 wheels! […]
Stephen King talks The Stand and Salem’s Lot adaptations
It’s been a heavy year for Stephen King adaptations, with feature film versions of The Dark Tower, It and Gerald’s Game (with 1922 still to come later this month), as well as The Mist and Mr. Mercedes on the small screen. Next year is set to bring us the Hulu series Castle Rock, while filming […]
Josh Boone writing script for Stephen King’s The Talisman
This year has been a pretty big one for fans of Stephen King’s works. The Dark Tower and It were released earlier this year and on the television side there is the upcoming Castle Rock series while Mr. Mercedes has been renewed for a second season. Fans have more to look forward to, however, as Variety has reported Amblin Entertainment has […]
