Per Collider, Zac Efron has signed on to star in a remake of Firestarter for Blumhouse. The original 1984 film, which starred a young Drew Barrymore, was itself an adaptation of Stephen King‘s 1980 novel, which followed a young girl who develops pyrokinetic abilities and is abducted by a secret government agency that wants to harness her powerful[…]
The Stephen King adaptations continue to roll in. In the wake of IT becoming the highest grossing horror film of all time back in 2017, King was suddenly in vogue again, with studios and streamers desperately wanting that kind of success for themselves. Thus, an avalanche of King adaptations were put into motion, and three years later, they’re still[…]
Mike Flanagan has already helmed two Stephen King adaptations – Doctor Sleep and Gerald’s Game – and he’s on board for another. The director has been hired to adapt King’s 2014 novel Revival into a film at Warner Bros. Flanagan isn’t actually on board to direct yet. He and producer Trevor Macy will produce, and Flanagan has the[…]
Mike Flanagan has become a major name in horror over the last few years. Having directed underrated films such as Absentia and Oculus, he then directed the Stephen King adaptations Gerald’s Game and Doctor Sleep, while also helming the popular Netflix series The Haunting Of Hill House. Considering the success of that show and his larger stature in[…]
Fresh Off The Boat creator Nahnatchka Khan has signed a first-look deal with Netflix. It’s a multi-year deal that, despite her success in TV, is exclusively for feature films. Khan has already worked with Netflix before on the well liked romcom Always Be My Maybe. Netflix doesn’t normally disclose viewing figures, but they revealed that 32 million households[…]