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‘A Quiet Place’ Writers Adapting Stephen King’s Short Story ‘The Boogeyman’!
Coming off the smash hit, critically acclaimed A Quiet Place, writers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods are a pretty hot duo right about now, and we’ve learned today that they’re developing their next project. Via Deadline, Beck and Woods will next be adapting The Boogeyman, a Stephen King short story featured in the Night Shift collection!
Many filmmakers have legally adapted the story for short films, but this will be the very first feature length, studio made adaptation of the King tale.
The Boogeyman follows a man who recently lost all his children to a creature lurking in the closet.
Beck and Woods tweeted today, “Ever since we were children, our nightmares have been fueled by the “King” of Horror… so we are absolutely thrilled and honored to be adapting Stephen King’s THE BOOGEYMAN.”
The site reports that Twentieth Century Fox is finalizing a deal for the pitch package, with 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy, Dan Levine and Dan Cohen on board to produce.
The Boogeyman was first published in 1973.
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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