EXCLUSIVE: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark director André Øvredal is set to direct New Line's feature adaptation of Stephen King's The Long Walk. Originally published by King under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1979, The Long Walk takes place in the future in which 100 teenage boys embark on an annual competition…

EXCLUSIVE: For those wondering how they will possibly survive without Game of Thrones after Sunday’s finale, maybe there’s epic fantasy life beyond Westeros. How about an epic fantasy series adaptation of a bestselling Stephen King novel, one that taps into the mythology of King’s epic Dark Tower and even shares a…

It scribe Gary Dauberman is taking on another Stephen King bestseller. The screenwriter is attached to pen the film adaptation to King’s 1975 horror novel Salem's Lot, which James Wan (Atomic Monster) will produce along with Roy Lee and Mark Wolper. Salem's Lot was King’s second published novel and his first book to…

Here comes another Stephen King adaptation! Legendary has attached Her Smell helmer Alex Ross Perry to write and direct a film adaptation of Rest Stop, based on King's short story, which was first published in the December 2003 issue of Esquire Magazine. Craig Flores (300, 300: Rise of an Empire) is producing through…

EXCLUSIVE: AMC has made a pilot script commitment on the Owen King & Stephen King’s bestselling novel Sleeping Beauties. The goal is to create an open ended TV series and Owen King has been set to write the pilot script. Sugar23’s Michael Sugar and Ashley Zalta will be exec producers. The book has the obligatory…

Apple has given a straight-to-series order to Lisey’s Story, an eight-hour limited series written and executive produced by Stephen King and starring Oscar winner Julianne Moore. The series hails from J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions and Warner Bros. Television. Moore also will executive produce. King wrote every…

The inaugural six-episode season of  Creepshow from The Walking Dead executive producer/director Greg Nicotero will feature an adaptation of a Stephen King story, as well as segments from other acclaimed horror writers. The AMC Networks' premium streaming service for thriller, suspense and horror has started…

EXCLUSIVE: Alistair Legrand (Clinical) has been set to direct supernatural horror thriller Mile 81, based on the 2011 novella by Stephen King. Producer is Ross M. Dinerstein, who recently produced Netflix's King adaptation 1922 and the streaming service’s John Grisham inspired docuseries The Innocent Man. Paradigm is…

If you have read Stephen King’s Pet Sematary, then it probably freaked you out. If you watched the 1989 film adaptation directed by Mary Lambert then you probably were freaked out even more (remember how creepy Zelda was?). Now, the new 2019 iteration starring Jason Clarke and John Lithgow will continue the tradition…

CBS All Access has given a 10-episode order to The Stand, a new adaptation of Stephen King’s bestselling novel as a limited event. The project hails from Josh Boone (The Fault In Our Stars) and SEAL Team creator/executive producer Ben Cavell, and CBS Television Studios. Boone and Cavell penned the adaptation, and…

Stephen King’s Joyland is in the works for the small screen. Freeform has put into development Joyland, a series based on the King novel, from writers Chris Peña (Jane the Virgin) and Cyrus Nowrasteh (The Stoning of Soraya M.) and Bill Haber’s Ostar Productions (Valor). Joyland tells the story of Devin, a college…

Sometimes, as Stephen King’s memorable line from Pet Sematary goes, dead is better. But fans of his super creepy 1983 novel – and the ’89 movie adaptation – will be happy to see that in King’s world anyway the famous warning typically goes unheeded. Back for more adventures in dead-cat babysitting, Pet Sematary, from P…