Oh, boy: “Director James Wan is about to embark on a wild journey as he is developing a feature film adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s iconic short story The Call of Cthulhu. It was also announced that there will be a video game developed based on the movie.” See Deadline for more.
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AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM apparently drawing from PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES.
And what is PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES? Why, this: a 1960s Italian camp flick that apparently you can’t get anymore because it actually doesn’t suck at all.
“‘Salem’s Lot” coming to the big screen.
‘Salem’s Lot has gone to the small screen twice, as a miniseries: I remember the first one. Well, actually, I remember that it sucked. Although I may be remembering a different miniseries that sucked, since it was done in 1979 and I was busy being nine at the time. Anyway, they’re making an actual movie.
Continue reading “‘Salem’s Lot” coming to the big screen.Stephen King’s vampire novel Salem’s Lot is heading to the big screen.
James Wan and Gary Dauberman, the respective producer and writer collaborators behind many of the biggest hits of theConjuring horror universe, are teaming to adapt the novel for New Line.
Dauberman will write the script and serve as executive producer. Wan will produce, along with Roy Lee and Mark Wolper.
Adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘The Tommyknockers’ planned.
Well. The bad news is, The Tommyknockers isn’t actually a very good book. I read it, and in retrospect it was fairly lurid in places, clearly written when Stephen King was in a personally dark place, and reveals the first signs of an inherent contempt for the pulp literature tradition (in this case, classic pulp science fiction) that Stephen King first sprang from, spent years being defecated on by the literary critics accordingly, and has since spent more years trying to successfully escape. His privilege, of course, and since Stephen King still gets readily published I’m sure that he doesn’t care about my opinion anyway. Assuming he would end up even ever reading it*. Continue reading Adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘The Tommyknockers’ planned.