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New ‘Firestarter’ Adaptation Catches ‘Vigil’ Director And ‘Halloween Kills’ Writer

A few years ago Jason Blum announced that Blumhouse was teaming up with Akiva Goldsman to develop a new adaptation of Stephen King’s Firestarter. While the film spent years in limbo, it has now sprung to life. Akiva is reportedly now writing the script along with Halloween Kills‘ Scott Teems. But that’s not all, Collider is reporting that Keith Thomas (The Vigil) has now signed on to direct. While this is not the first adaptation, we got the first in 1984, a new updated version might be nice. The original, directed by Mark L. Lester, starred Drew Barrymore as a kid with pyrokinetic abilities on the run with her telekinetic father. There is no word yet on who will star in the new film.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Dec 17, 2019

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Carl Lumby And Alex Essoe Join ‘Doctor Sleep’

It’s been a few months since we had any news on Mike Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep, the sequel to Stephen King’s The Shining. Today news has come that two more names have been added to the guest list that already includes the previously announced stars Rebecca Ferguson and Ewan McGregor who will play adult Danny Torrence. Carl Lumby (Supergirl) has filled the role of Dick Halloran. Alex Essoe (Midnighters) is set to play Wendy Torrance, originally played by Shelley Duvall, Deadline reports. Ferguson plays “Rose The Hat, head of a cult that feeds on the “steam” created by young people who have a touch of the “shining.” It is an excruciating fatal process for the victims and Torrance finds himself in their crosshairs as he tries to help a young girl elude their grasp.” Flanagan rewrote Akiva Goldsman’s adaptation of King’s 2013 novel which picks up with Danny who is now in his 40s and struggling with the same demons his

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Aug 3, 2018

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DVD Art Teases The Terror In ‘Stephanie’ – Starring Frank Grillo

Blumhouse’s supernatural genre film Stephanie, from director Akiva Goldsman, is set to arrive this May and stars The Purge franchise’s Frank Grillo. Today, we get a first look at the art featured on the DVD (below). The film Siren as well as The Orchard’s Super Dark Times. Anna Torv (Fringe), and Shree Crooks (American Horror Story) co-star. The film centers on, “a young girl named Stephanie (Shree Crooks) who is abandoned by her parents, forced to survive on peanut butter and conversations with her toy turtle. When her parents return to claim their daughter, they find dark supernatural forces are wreaking havoc, with Stephanie at the center of the turmoil.” Stephanie arrives on DVD on May 1, 2018, from Universal Pictures.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Mar 11, 2018

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Blumhouse And Universal Remaking Stephen King’s FIRESTARTER

Late last night at The Overlook Film Festival, following the premiere of Stephanie, Jason Blum and Akiva Goldsman announced their next project, their fifth together, which will be a remake of Stephen King’s Firestarter. Goldsman will direct and co-write the script with Scott Teems for Universal. The 1984 original film, directed by Mark L. Lester, tells the story of a couple who participated in a medical experiment and gain telekinetic abilities. The couple, played by David Keith and Heather Locklear, give birth to a daughter (Drew Barrymore) with strong pyrokinetic abilities. After the mother’s death the girl and her father are forced to flee from those who want to harness her power.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 28, 2017

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Warner Bros. Adapting Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep For A Feature Film

Warner Bros. is currently adapting Stephen King’s novel Doctor Sleep for a full length feature film. The Novel, is a sequel to King’s The Shining. Akiva Goldsman who wrote I Am Legend and the upcoming film Rings, and directed the series Fringe, has been tasked with penning the screenplay that features Danny (from The Shining) as an adult, working in a nursing home where he meets a group of people known as ‘The True Knot’. King himself will be serving as executive producer along side Jon Berg and Jon Gonda who will be supervising for Warner Bros. The novel follows a tribe of people called The True Knot, who are in search of sustenance. They look harmless – mostly old and married to their RVs. But Dan Torrance knows that The True Knot are quasi-immortal and live of the “steam” that children with the “shining” produce when they are tortured. Still haunted by his experience at The Overlook Hotel, Dan

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 1, 2016

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The Gunslinger, First In The Dark Tower Series, To Star Matthew McConaughey

For a while now the franchise based on Stephen King’s novels has almost become a movie, a show, and back and forth, with no project actually seeing completion. We reported back in December of 2014 that the first ‘The Dark Tower’ Film was coming, but the cast and director has since changed. Now, once again, a ‘Dark Tower’ film series is in the works. The project is being directed by ‘Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’s’ Nikolaj Arcel, based on a script penned by Akiva Goldsman. The first film of the three film series will focus on King’s first book in the collection, ‘The Gunslinger’. Matthew McConaughey has been offered not one role in the film, but two to pick from. McConaughey has his pick of either playing the role of Roland, the Gunslinger and hero of the novels, or the villain, the Man in Black. Word is he’s leaning more towards the darker role at the moment. ‘The Gunslinger’ is

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 17, 2015

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