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TV: ‘Dead Zone’ Team Reunites for Stephen King’s ‘Haven’!
Stephen King is taking another stab at the smallscreen, signing on to turn his novella “The Colorado Kid” into an hourlong series for indie studio E1 Entertainment (“Hung”). Titled Haven, the project centers on a spooky town in Maine where cursed folk live normal lives in exile. When those curses start returning, FBI agent Audrey Parker is brought in to keep those supernatural forces at bay — while trying to unravel the mysteries of Haven.
The team who turned King’s “The Dead Zone” into a series for USA Network are at it again for “Haven”: Scott Shepherd will serve as showrunner and exec produce with Lloyd Segan and Shawn Piller. Shepherd, Segan and Piller were all exec producers on “The Dead Zone,” which ran for six seasons and went off the air in 2008.
Two more “Dead Zone” alums, Sam Ernst and Jim Dunn, are writing the pilot and will also serve as exec producers. E1’s John Morayniss and Noreen Halpern are exec producers as well.
E1 has already committed to producing 13 episodes of “Haven” and is in advanced talks with several European broadcast partners to sign on and help finance the show.
E1 plans to bring the international co-production to next month’s Mipcom confab. After securing an international partner, the company will turn its attention to finding U.S. and Canadian broadcasters. E1 has aggressively pursued international co-productions, setting up series such as “Copper” for ABC and Canwest and “The Bridge” for CBS and CTV.
Morayniss said production on “Haven” will commence some time in the next six months, after partners are secured and casting is finalized.
“The Colorado Kid” was first published in 2005. Adaptation was initially developed for ABC for the 2008-09 TV season.
King has a long history of seeing his works translated for television — most recently, the Syfy longform “Children of the Corn,” which was telecast this past weekend.
King was also behind ABC’s 2003-04 TV series “Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital,” which was actually based on a Danish miniseries. Other recent King adaptations include ABC’s telepic “Stephen King’s Desperation” and TNT’s mini “Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot.”
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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