Cary Fukunaga’s IT adaptation finds its Pennywise!

May 4, 2015.Reading time 3 minutes.

After years in development, Cary Fukunaga’s two-part IT adaptation has finally cast its Pennywise, which will see The Maze Runner star Will Poulter don the iconic red nose and razor sharp teeth. It’s a hell of a decision by Fukunaga and New Line, who wanted to go a different route for the character by casting someone […]

Cary Fukunaga’s IT adaptation starts shooting in the summer

December 5, 2014.Reading time 3 minutes.

After years in development, IT is finally happening. True Detective’s Cary Fukunaga has been hard at work on trying to get his two-film adaptation of Stephen King’s classic tome, IT, off the ground for many years and now it appears to finally be happening. Awesome. Speaking with Vulture, producer Dan Lin said that the film is not […]

Josh Boone’s The Stand adaptation no longer just a single film

November 20, 2014.Reading time 4 minutes.

Prepare your brains for a 4-film adaptation of Stephen King’s epic tome! Keeping up with the movie adaptation of Stephen King’s classic The Stand has been rough, to say the least. We’ve seen countless directors come and go before landing on the unlikeliest of choices, Fault in Our Stars director Josh Boone. Despite there only […]

The Stand has its eyes on Matthew McConaughey as Randall Flagg

August 22, 2014.Reading time 2 minutes.

The Stand may have found its force of evil. With a director finally set in place for the long awaited movie adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand, we’re going to start seeing some big names getting thrown around to fill the shoes of the iconic characters found within the pages of King’s epic story. Back in […]

Mike Flanagan’s Gerald’s Game adaptation will be “strange and exciting”

August 6, 2014.Reading time 3 minutes.

The director of Oculus is going to take a stab at Stephen King’s Gerald’s Game! Does he have what it takes? When it was announced that Oculus director Mike Flanagan was going to be steering the adaptation of Stephen King’s Gerald’s Game, the first question was: How? While I haven’t read the novel myself, I’m […]

Mark Romanek in talks to direct The Shining prequel Overlook Hotel

July 19, 2014.Reading time 2 minutes.

The prequel to Stanley Kubrick’s classic The Shining has found its first victim in director Mark Romanek, who is in negotiations to helm Overlook Hotel, reports Variety. That’s not the first name we’ve seen get attached to the project, however, as we learned back in May that Alfonso Cuarón had supposedly been approached to bring this one […]