With day-to-day life at the moment seeming like considered one of his extra apocalyptic novels, Stephen King continues to supply a library of titles which can be ripe for adaptation. After the field workplace success of the IT collection, and the opposite main variations of the previous few years, we’re already trying ahead to new takes on ‘Salem’s Lot, The Tommyknockers and The Stand, to call only a few. The newest King ebook to get a display screen adaptation has now been introduced although and it’s his 1999 novella The Lady Who Cherished Tom Gordon.
For these not conscious, The Lady Who Cherished Tom Gordon follows Trisha, a preteen woman who will get misplaced within the Appalachian Path whereas on a household hike. As she tries to seek out her option to security, Trisha is comforted by listening to baseball video games on her Walkman, and imagining Boston Pink Sox pitcher Tom Gordon. Over time, her survival story takes a seemingly supernatural flip as she discovers a possible entity stalking her within the woods.
It’s a reasonably slight story, though one wealthy with the psychological realism that King brings to his finest fiction, and presents a compelling plot that’s been banded round for a movie adaptation for a very long time. George A. Romero was hooked up to develop the ebook for the display screen, however was unable to get the mission off the bottom earlier than his demise. In the final 12 months or so, curiosity in adapting Tom Gordon got here round once more, with Romero’s manufacturing firm nonetheless hooked up.
It now appears that the mission is getting the go-ahead, with Village Roadshow optioning the story, and Romero’s spouse Christine producing alongside Residing Useless Movies, in addition to Stampede Ventures, Origin Story and Vertigo Leisure. The latter firm’s producer, Roy Lee, was additionally concerned in adapting IT and Physician Sleep. Christy Corridor is hooked up to direct, in the meantime, having beforehand written and produced the Netflix collection I Am Not Okay with This.
Whereas it’s at the moment unclear once we may see The Lady Who Cherished Tom Gordon, there’s an opportunity that the Netflix connections will imply a doable premiere on the service, who’ve additionally served up variations of Gerald’s Recreation, 1922 and In the Tall Grass lately. Nonetheless, issues are nonetheless at an early stage and within the meantime, we’ll have loads of Stephen King motion pictures and tv collection to take pleasure in, together with a a brand new Firestarter movie and a by-product collection from The Shining.
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