Stephen King novel Gerald's Game is to be adapted into a film.
Mike Flanagan has signed on to helm the project based on King's 1992 thriller, reports Deadline.
Gerald's Game centres around a woman who accidentally kills her husband during a bondage session. Handcuffed to the bed with no apparent hope of escape, she is left to confront her inner demons.
Flanagan developed the script with writing partner Jeff Howard.
His most recent project was the Karen Gillan and Katee Sackhoff-starring Oculus, which will arrive in the UK on June 13.
King's The Stand, Bad Little Kid and The Ten O'Clock People are also in development.
Gerald's Game is casting and scheduled to film in the autumn.
Mike Flanagan has signed on to helm the project based on King's 1992 thriller, reports Deadline.
Gerald's Game centres around a woman who accidentally kills her husband during a bondage session. Handcuffed to the bed with no apparent hope of escape, she is left to confront her inner demons.
Flanagan developed the script with writing partner Jeff Howard.
His most recent project was the Karen Gillan and Katee Sackhoff-starring Oculus, which will arrive in the UK on June 13.
King's The Stand, Bad Little Kid and The Ten O'Clock People are also in development.
Gerald's Game is casting and scheduled to film in the autumn.
- 5/19/2014
- Digital Spy
Stephen King's new short story Bad Little Kid has been optioned for film.
Director Laurent Bouzereau has acquired the rights to the tale via his Nedland Media shingle, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Bad Little Kid centres around a man who realises that a strange child may be responsible for the death of his loved ones.
It was written by King as a tribute to his French and German fans in thanks for their hospitality during a signing tour last year, and was released in March in those countries.
Bouzereau wrote and directed the 2011 documentary A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King, which featured interviews with the writer.
Film adaptations of King's The Ten O'Clock People, The Stand and The Dark Tower are all in various stages of development.
Director Laurent Bouzereau has acquired the rights to the tale via his Nedland Media shingle, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Bad Little Kid centres around a man who realises that a strange child may be responsible for the death of his loved ones.
It was written by King as a tribute to his French and German fans in thanks for their hospitality during a signing tour last year, and was released in March in those countries.
Bouzereau wrote and directed the 2011 documentary A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King, which featured interviews with the writer.
Film adaptations of King's The Ten O'Clock People, The Stand and The Dark Tower are all in various stages of development.
- 5/5/2014
- Digital Spy
We've been talking about Tom Holland's adaptation of Stephen King's short story "The Ten O'Clock People" for the last couple of years here on Dread Central, which originally had Justin Long attached to star. Long dropped out due to scheduling conflicts, and his replacement has now been found. Read on!
THR reports that This Is the End star Jay Baruchel has signed on to play the lead role in the adaptation, a film he will also be executive producing.
Baruchel will play a smoker who returns to his old habit with a cessation drug still in his system, triggering a side effect that reveals a frightening reality in which many people in authority are monsters.
The Ten O'Clock People film, written and directed by Holland, is eying a June start in Baruchel’s hometown of Montreal.
Industry veteran Don Carmody is producing. Baruchel is exec producing with Pascal Borno,...
THR reports that This Is the End star Jay Baruchel has signed on to play the lead role in the adaptation, a film he will also be executive producing.
Baruchel will play a smoker who returns to his old habit with a cessation drug still in his system, triggering a side effect that reveals a frightening reality in which many people in authority are monsters.
The Ten O'Clock People film, written and directed by Holland, is eying a June start in Baruchel’s hometown of Montreal.
Industry veteran Don Carmody is producing. Baruchel is exec producing with Pascal Borno,...
- 2/7/2014
- by John Squires
- DreadCentral.com
In the summer of 2012, we learned that Justin Long was being lined up to star in The Ten O'Clock People, an adaptation of Stephen King's short story of the same name. However, it appears the Drag Me to Hell star has fallen away from the project, and now THR reports Jay Baruchel (This is The End, RoboCop) who has signed on to star in the film written and directed by Tom Holland, the original Fright Night and Child's Play helmer. King and Holland collaborated back in the 90s, most notably on the TV series "The Langoliers" and the film Thinner (Holland's last big screen work), so this is quite a reunion 16 years later. The story comes from King's 1993 horror collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes, and it sounds more like an episode of "The Twilight Zone." Baruchel will star in the film as Brandon Pearson, a former smoker who returns to...
- 2/7/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
The works of Stephen King have inspired countless nightmares and over 170 adaptations in film and television, from The Shining and It to Pet Sematary and The Shawshank Redemption. Now Jay Baruchel is joining this legacy with the upcoming horror-thriller The Ten O'Clock People. THR reports out of the European Film Market that Baruchel, who hit theaters last year in the hit apocalypse comedy This is The End, will executive produce and star in The Ten O'Clock People, which is adapted from one of King's short stories. Found in the collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes, The Ten O'Clock People centers on Brandon Pearson (Baruchel), a smoker so desperate to kick the habit that he begins treatment using a cessation drug. But when his willpower crumbles and he picks up the cigarettes once more, the combination of smoking with the remnants of the drug trigger a chilling side effect that reveals to him...
- 2/7/2014
- cinemablend.com
Jay Baruchel will star in the adaptation of Stephen King's The Ten O'Clock People.
The This Is the End actor has joined the film based on the horror short story, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
It will be written and directed by Tom Holland, the filmmaker responsible for the original Fright Night and Child's Play.
The Ten O'Clock People centres around a man trying to quit smoking.
The cigarette that he has on his ten o'clock break creates a chemical imbalance in his brain that allows him to perceive that authority figures are actually inhuman creatures in disguise.
Baruchel can currently be seen in the RoboCop remake. He will be reprising his voice role in How to Train Your Dragon 2 in the summer.
The Ten O'Clock People will begin shooting in June in Montreal.
The This Is the End actor has joined the film based on the horror short story, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
It will be written and directed by Tom Holland, the filmmaker responsible for the original Fright Night and Child's Play.
The Ten O'Clock People centres around a man trying to quit smoking.
The cigarette that he has on his ten o'clock break creates a chemical imbalance in his brain that allows him to perceive that authority figures are actually inhuman creatures in disguise.
Baruchel can currently be seen in the RoboCop remake. He will be reprising his voice role in How to Train Your Dragon 2 in the summer.
The Ten O'Clock People will begin shooting in June in Montreal.
- 2/7/2014
- Digital Spy
After losing Justin Long last summer, The Ten O'Clock People has been seeking a new leading man. According to The Hollywood Reporter , Jay Baruchel . star of This is the End and writer of the upcoming Randoms Acts of Violence (based on the comic book of the same name) . has signed on to star. Directed by Tom Holland and based on Stephen King's short story publised in 1993 as part of his "Nightmares and Dreamscapes" collection, The Ten O'Clock People follows Brandon Pearson, who in trying to kick his smoking habit uncovers a frightening aspect of reality he plans to extinguish through extreme measures. The film is being shopped at the Efm in Berlin. Hopefully with Baruchel on board, this long-mooted project will now gain some traction.
- 2/7/2014
- Comingsoon.net
Looks like the thinking man's Michael Cera will be working overtime in 2014. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jay Baruchel has just landed a starring role in FX's upcoming comedy Man Seeking Woman and in the film adaptation of the Stephen King short story The Ten O'Clock People. Baruchel will star as a man who was recently dumped and a smoker whose anti-smoking medication allows him to see hideous secret realities respectively, which is to say there is a lot of overlap between the two roles, emotionally speaking.
- 2/7/2014
- by Halle Kiefer
- Vulture
"All I've ever wanted to do is direct horror films in Montreal for the rest of my life. That is the endgame. That is the ultimate motivation. Everything I do is an effort to get to that point." Thus spake Jay Baruchel back in 2010, and while the intervening three years haven't yet seen him realise that ambition, he's at least somewhere in its ballpark this morning. The news is that Baruchel will act as an exec-producer as well as the star of screenwriter Tom Holland's Montreal-based Stephen King adaptation The Ten O'Clock People.The Ten O'Clock People of the title are smokers who congregate for a quick wheeze at the same time every morning outside the revolving doors of their place of work (the First Mercantile financial corporation). Baruchel will play Brand Pearson, who's gradually cutting back on the Marlboros and finds the resultant chemical imbalance in his system...
- 2/7/2014
- EmpireOnline
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