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EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is making a deal with Edgar Wright to develop to direct a new adaptation of The Running Man, the futuristic novel by Stephen King that the author first published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. This won’t be a remake of the 1987 film that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger; the Baby Driver…

Bestselling author Stephen King and Star Trek and Star Wars filmmaker J.J. Abrams will team up again after the Hulu series 11.22.63 and Castle Rock for Lisey’s Story. The streamer dropped a first look image Friday at TCA and announced that the new series will arrive this summer around the world. Based on King’s…

Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay has been tapped to direct The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, the film adaptation to the 1999 psychological horror novel by Stephen King, which is set up at Village Roadshow Pictures. Ramsay, who wrote and directed the Joaquin Phoenix-starring drama, You Were Never Really Here, also penned…

EXCLUSIVE: After relaunching its podcast network last month, horror outfit Fangoria has brought Stephen King podcast The Kingcast into the fold as one of its flagship shows. The pod was started in May has featured guests including Elijah Wood, Kumail Nanjiani, Karyn Kusama, Bryan Fuller and Mike Flanagan. It is hosted…

The first look at the trailer and key art for the CBS All Access limited-event series The Stand was unveiled Friday at the virtual New York Comic Con. A panel devoted to the series brought together cast members Whoopi Goldberg, James Marsden, Greg Kinnear, Odessa Young, Jovan Adepo, Amber Heard, and Owen Teague, as…

Kiefer Sutherland and Joey King will lend their voices to Shudder’s upcoming animated The Creepshow Halloween Special, based on two stories by Stephen King and his author son Joe Hill. Sutherland (24, Designated Survivor) will star in "Survivor Type," based on King’s short story adapted by the special’s director Greg…

Peacock has acquired crime-thriller drama series Mr. Mercedes, from David E. Kelley based on Stephen King’s bestselling Bill Hodges trilogy. The first two seasons will premiere exclusively on the NBCUniversal streaming service on Thursday, October 15, with a premiere date for Season 3 TBD. The announcement came…

Stephen King fans got their first look at the latest adaptation of his beloved novels during Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards. CBS All Access teased the first trailer of its newest limited series The Stand during the annual music awards show. The star-studded television take on King’s 1978 book centers on the…

CBS All Access’ star-studded television adaptation of The Stand, by Stephen King, will make its debut in the winter. The limited-series adaptation of King’s 1978 novel will premiere on Dec. 17. Starring Whoopi Goldberg, Alexander Skarsgård, James Marsden, Odessa Young, Jovan Adepo and Amber Heard, The Stand is the…

The House of Representatives returned to Washington on Saturday to vote on a measure to reverse changes and provide $25 billion in additional funding to the U.S. Postal Service, as Democrats and activists suspect that the slowed service is part of President Donald Trump attempt to stymie vote-by-mail efforts in this…

Stephen King’s latest bestselling four novella collection If It Bleeds has quickly garnered three option deals, with a fourth in the offing because it involves a preexisting character who just starred in an HBO series adaptation. For those who know that King extends options for $1, that's an extra $4 in the prolific…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max is in the early development stage of a feature adaptation for the Trottle novella, which was co-written by Stephen King and his son Joe Hill, who is the NYT bestselling author of The Fireman and Strange Weather. Leigh Dana Jackson, a co-executive producer on the Netflix series Raising Dion, will…