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Update On Running Man Remake

Posted: November 4, 2023, 19:10
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Simon Kinberg provided an update on the upcoming Running Man remake.

“[Wright is] one of my favorite directors of all time and one of my favorite people, just a super great guy,” Kinberg said. “Obviously a cinephile. We are working on it actively. He’s actively working on the script with Michael Bacall. And our hope would be that it is a movie that, again, all fingers crossed and luck and everything else go our way, that Edgar could maybe direct next year.”

“Well, what’s cool is that Edgar, completely separately, before myself and Paramount started down the journey of figuring out how to get the remake rights, which was complicated, he had tweeted, just on his own — and I follow him obviously on every possible platform — he had tweeted that if there was one movie he would remake ever, it was Running Man.”

Welcome To Derry In 2025

Posted: November 4, 2023, 18:10
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Welcome To Derry has been pushed to 2025.

We had had [Welcome To Derry] scheduled for Halloween ’24 but it will likely [be] pushing into ’25,” HBO CEO Casey Bloys officially announced.

King On Salem’s Lot Remake

Posted: November 2, 2023, 15:40
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Yesterday we learned (again) that the remake of Salem’s Lot will end up on MAX and now King has commented on it on X. Could it mean something is about to happen? I have no idea but it would be nice if they could just release it.

You Like It Darker Out June 12?

Posted: November 1, 2023, 20:20
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Did King’s German publisher Heyne jump the gun on announcing King’s next book? Well, they did announce it. The release date is June 12 next year and the title is You Like It Darker. They even have a cover already…

Hopefully the US and UK announcements will follow and maybe then we’ll know what stories will be included.

The Life of Chuck Casting Update

Posted: October 26, 2023, 09:24
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Mike Flanagan presented the actors/actress that will join him and Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, Jacob Tremblay, Tom Hiddleston and Mark Hamill in The Life of Chuck and there are a lot of them… Here is the list:

David Dastmalchian (The Boogeyman)
Heather Langenkamp (A Nightmare on Elm St.)
Matthew Lillard (Scream)
Mia Sara (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
Harvey Guillén (What We Do In The Shadows)
Carl Lumbly (Doctor Sleep)
Kate Siegel (The Fall of the House of Usher)
Annalise Basso (Oculus)
Samantha Sloyan (Midnight Mass)
Rahul Kohli (Usher)
Matt Biedel (The Midnight Club)
Sauriyan Sapkota (Usher)
Saidah Arrika Ekulona (The Haunting of Hill House)
Michael Trucco (Usher)
Violet McGraw (Hill House)
Molly C. Quinn (Usher)
Benjamin Pajak
Trinity Jo-Li Bliss
Antonio Raul Corbo
Q'Orianka Kilcher
Taylor Gordon

Hopefully we’ll get to see the movie in late 2024.

Remake Of The Langoliers?

Posted: October 12, 2023, 11:34
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Rob Savage who butchered The Boogeyman wants to do the same…a remake of The Langoliers. Here is what he said about it while speaking with ComicBook.com.

“There’s a bit of naughtiness when it comes to the rights, but I think hopefully we’ll be able to sort it out. We’ve got such a great idea for developing that one out from the short story. Of all the ones in King’s work that have been adapted, I don’t think it’s ever been done justice to. It plays with ideas that I’ve never seen explored in a horror movie. The idea of time, and decaying time, and these creatures that are eating the time left behind — there’s such a great, cosmic horror movie to be made there that lends itself so well to film. Film is all about stretching and compressing time, and you can do so many great, playful things in that space that go beyond what’s there in the novella. I’m so excited about that one. I think that one stands a good shot of happening.“

The Life Of Chuck Start Filming Oct. 16

Posted: October 4, 2023, 13:19
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Gulf Coast Media reports that Mike Flanagan will shoot The Life of Chuck in various locations around Baldwin and Mobile contries starting October 16.


The Alabama Gulf Coast has been the backdrop of many movies big and small, but there’s no better way to welcome the spooky Halloween season than with a Stephen King movie.

Gulf Coast Media confirmed today that filmmaker Mike Flanagan will shoot his third Stephen King adaptation, “The Life of Chuck,” in various locations around Baldwin and Mobile counties. The production is anticipated to begin filming Oct. 16 and run for approximately four weeks.

According to the local booking agency, 1,000 extras are needed for the film in a range of ages from 11 years old and up. The bulk of the extras are needed for two large crowd scenes to be filmed in Baldwin County.

My Thoughts On Pet Sematary: Bloodlines

Posted: September 28, 2023, 13:27
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Here are my thoughts on the upcoming prequel to Pet Sematary, Pet Sematary: Bloodlines.

Pet Sematary: Bloodlines isn’t a movie I’ll be watching again but compared to my expectations and the remake of Pet Sematary that it’s supposed to be a prequel to, it's a masterpiece. Draw your own conclusions from that…

My Thoughts On Holly

Posted: September 5, 2023, 05:00
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Today King’s 88th book, Holly is released. Check out my review of it here but be warned, there are some spoilers in it so if you want to read it totally unspoiled, read the book and then come back for the review.

Holly gets involved with this when she is hired by Bonnie’s mother who wants Holly to find her daughter. Or at least find out what happened to her. Of course Holly solves the mystery but not without getting in rather big trouble herself.

The Life of Chuck To Start Filming In October

Posted: August 31, 2023, 15:44
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The filming of The Life of Chuck is all set to begin in Alabama in October. The production received a waiver from SAG-AFTRA to proceed with the casting for the film. However, since it hasn’t obtained an exemption from the union to move forward with the lensing, the shoot in Alabama can be affected by the ongoing actors’ strike. The Life of Chuck is helmed by Mike Flanagan, who also penned the script before the ongoing WGA strike and stars Tom Hiddleston in the titular role and Mark Hamill as Albie.

Thanks to Herbert West

Pet Sematary: Bloodline To Premier At Fantastic Fest

Posted: August 15, 2023, 20:58
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New prequel to Pet Sematary, Pet Sematary: Bloodlines will premier at Fantastic Fest September 21 - 28, 2023.

PET SEMATARY: BLOODLINES
USA, Canada, 2023
World Premiere, 87 min
Director – Lindsey Anderson Beer

In 1969, a young Jud Crandall and his childhood friends band together to confront an ancient evil that has gripped their hometown. PET SEMATARY: BLOODLINES is a terrifying prequel based on chapters from Stephen King's novel "Pet Sematary."

Thanks to Anders Jakobson

Update On Life Of Chuck Movie

Posted: August 10, 2023, 10:24
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Mike Flanagan updates us about The Life of Chuck.

Flanagan said it’s a relatively small film and that film production may begin soon despite the strike due to circumstances that mean the project does not violate WGA and SAG rules. Studios like A24 have already signed agreements which allow them to produce films without any obstacles.

Flanagan Talks The Dark Tower

Posted: August 10, 2023, 09:24
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Mike Flanagan has given an update on his adaptation of The Dark Tower.

"I feel really good about where we are. Oddly, where we are at the moment is completely frozen, because of the strike, but we had a wonderful spring with it and we're making enormous progress on it. And I have every reason to believe that on the other side of the strike, it's gonna be priority #1.

We have great partners on it that I can't talk about, and we've got some really exciting actors circling on it that I can't talk about, and we have some potentially groundbreaking approaches to the filmmaking of it that I just can't really talk about ... but what I can say is that my fears that any momentum we had developed was gonna be obliterated [by the strike], well, I don't really worry about that.

We’re in a healthy place. We are of course in solidarity with the WGA and SAG, and once those immediate needs are taken care of and everyone's back to work, I think that's when we're gonna immediately deploy. But it's going very well."

You Like It Darker; New Collection Out In 2024

Posted: August 8, 2023, 23:38
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In the latest episode of Talking Scared Podcast King reveals that he’ll have a new collection out in 2024. The title will be You Like it Darker. No word on when during 2024 it will be out but it will be over 600 pages long. Here is what King said about it:

Then last year, there’s a story. It’ll be in a book that comes out next year called You Like It Darker. They’re mostly news stories, long stories, for the most part. One of them is called The Dreamers. One night I was lying in bed. I tell myself stories before I go to sleep. That’s how I get to sleep. I had this image of a man who was under some kind of drug. He opens his eyes and they turn black and these tendrils start to come out of his eyeballs. They just creep me out. I couldn’t think about that anymore. I put that aside.

The next day I said to myself, oh, I remember that book, Lovecraft’s Beyond the Wall of
Sleep. I said, what if a man didn’t get through the wall of sleep or over the wall of sleep, but
under it? What if there was something beyond that wall, beyond the actual dreams that we have, a reality that’s huge, that’s apocalyptic, some huge darkness that’s sentient, that had something
like that? I thought that goes with the tendrils and the eyeballs. I had that story like that. But I couldn’t think about it at night. I couldn’t do that because it just was so creepy to me.

Pet Sematary: Bloodlines Arrives In October

Posted: July 18, 2023, 17:33
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Pet Sematary: Bloodlines will premiere Friday, October 6, exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S., Canada, Latin America and Brazil, and Saturday, October 7 in all other Paramount+ international markets.

The untold chapter’s official synopsis: “In 1969, a young Jud Crandall has dreams of leaving his hometown of Ludlow, Maine behind, but soon discovers sinister secrets buried within and is forced to confront a dark family history that will forever keep him connected to Ludlow. Banding together, Jud and his childhood friends must fight an ancient evil that has gripped Ludlow since its founding, and once unearthed has the power to destroy everything in its path.”

Source: Bloody Disgusting.


Thanks to Herbert West.

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