Latest in Stephen King

EXCLUSIVE: MGM has set Alex Ross Perry to adapt and direct The Dark Half, a new adaptation of the 1989 Stephen King bestseller. Perry popped after writing, directing and producing Her Smell, the drama that premiered at the 2018 Toronto Film Festival, and for which Elisabeth Moss is Spirit Awards-nominated for her…

EXCLUSIVE: Actor Thomas Jane (The Predator) and producer Courtney Lauren Penn (Altitude) are teaming up to form LA-based content company Renegade Entertainment with Stephen King novel adaptation From A Buick 8 their first movie project on the docket. Renegade, which will develop and produce film, TV, games and…

One of my favorite horror movies ever is Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 screen adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining. The author himself famously didn’t share my enthusiasm, endorsing instead the idea of the inferior 1997 ABC miniseries based on the book. But King, still gold these days at the box office after the success…

HBO has set a January premiere date for drama series The Outsider, based on Stephen King's bestselling novel. The 10-episode series will debut with back-to-back episodes at 9 and 10 PM, Sunday, January 12. It hails from The Night Of co-creator/executive producer Richard Price, director-executive producer Andrew…

Oscar nominee Clive Owen (Children of Men, Closer, The Knick) is set to star opposite Julianne Moore in Lisey's Story, Apple’s eight-hour limited series written and executive produced by Stephen King, from J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions and Warner Bros. Television. Lisey's Story is a deeply personal thriller that…

An all-Stephen King edition of the Hero Nation this week… It’s good to be the King. The human content machine that is Stephen King continues to churn out stories and characters that scare up huge success as screen entertainment. In fact, King is casting a bigger shadow than ever (check out the long list of upcoming…

Stephen King’s shelf of horrors meet in the Hulu original series Castle Rock and in the just-released teaser for Season 2 it’s clear that Misery comes to town in Season 2, which premieres Oct. 23 only on Hulu. Lizzy Caplan portrays budding psychopath Annie Wilkes, the nurse from Misery, who has a prescription for…

Alexander Skarsgård is to star in The Stand, an adaptation of Stephen King's novel at CBS All Access. The Big Little Lies star joins James Marsden, Amber Heard, Odessa Young, Jovan Adepo, Owen Teague, Henry Zaga, Brad William Henke and Whoopi Goldberg in the drama, which has kicked off filming in Vancouver. Skarsgård…

In a competitive situation, Spyglass Media Group’s TV division has optioned Stephen King’s latest novel The Institute to develop as a limited series, with David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies) and Jack Bender (Lost), the same creative team behind the critically acclaimed Mr. Mercedes, also based on a King novel, attached…

When your movie makes $700 million, it inevitably is going to trigger a sequel. In the case of the 2017 film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel It, the second film is not a sequel by definition but rather the final chapter of a two-part movie. At least that is what Warner Bros says. It makes sense because only about…

Stephen King’s post-apocalyptic horror classic The Stand had been adapted for television before with the 1994 ABC miniseries. But CBS All Access’ upcoming limited series The Stand will bring a twist that will have fans buzzing — a new ending crafted by King. The streamer announced at TCA Thursday that King will write…

EXCLUSIVE:  IDW Publishing of San Diego will adapt Sleeping Beauties, the bestselling 2017 novel by Stephen King and Owen King, as a 10-part comic book epic by the international tandem of Canadian novelist Rio Youers (The Forgotten Girl) and London-based artist and architect Alison Sampson (Winnebago Graveyard). IDW…