Severe storms occur and he makes a Faustian bargain with a rat to alleviate his writer’s block. He is determined to write an idea for a Western, and heads out to an old family cabin in the woods determined to get it done. With an acclaimed short story to his credit who turns to academia because each time he’s got a good book idea, something terrible happens. Rat focuses on a frustrated writer named Drew Larson. The Life Of Chuck concerns title character Charles Krantz, who dies at age 39 of a brain tumor and whose life is segmented into several eerie supernatural chapter breaks. Harrigan dies, the teen puts the phone in his pal’s pocket before burial and when the lonely youth leaves his dead friend a message, he is shocked to get a return text from beyond the grave.īlumhouse Television’s Marci Wiseman and Jeremy Gold are exec producing, and this becomes the fourth Netflix film with King, following Gerald’s Game, 1922, and In the Tall Grass. Harrigan has a penchant for giving the youth scratch off lotto tickets that pay off and the youth reciprocates by buying the older man his first smart phone. Harrigan, starting from when he is nine years old. A youngster in Maine befriends and does odd jobs for the retired Mr. Harrigan’s Phone is said to be the tale closest in tone to Stand By Me, with a supernatural spark thrown in for good measure.

When I said King options his work for $1, the buck is a symbolic figure for option deals that contain many creative controls – though King doesn’t suffocate the creative process – and short leashes so that his work doesn’t languish in development hell.īen Mendelsohn and Cynthia Erivo in ‘The Outsider’ HBO That one is in development with Blum producing and Doctor Strange helmer Scott Derrickson. The only title that didn’t make it to the screen from that book was The Breathing Method. That novella featured The Body, which became the Rob Reiner-directed classic Stand By Me Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, which became the Frank Darabont-directed classic The Shawshank Redemption with Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman and Apt Pupil, which became the Bryan Singer-directed thriller that starred Ian McKellan and Brad Renfro. Now, you would have to go far back to King’s 1982 novella collection Different Seasons to see this level of film deals coming out of one of his books.

Don’t be surprised if the If It Bleed bleeds into the future of the series. The fourth installment, Let It Bleed, might have found a deal of its own, but it revolves around Holly, the clairvoyant detective played indelibly in the HBO limited series The Outsider by Cynthia Erivo. Theo James To Star In Stephen King Adaptation 'The Monkey' From 'The Conjuring Universe' Creator James Wan & C2 Black Bear International Launches Hot Project For Cannes Market

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