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Two Stephen King Biopics Land on Hollywood’s Black List
He’s the king of horror. And he deserves a biopic.
Ever since bursting onto the scene with the career-making Carrie in 1974, Stephen King has been the world’s favorite horror writer, and to this day he continues to churn out incredible novels at a steady clip. King never went anywhere, but one could argue that with adaptations of both The Dark Tower and IT headed our way next year, he’s about to become more popular than ever.
So is now the time for a biopic?
The 2016 Hollywood Black List, which collects together the hottest unproduced screenplays of the year, includes not one but two Stephen King biopics, and though their inclusion on the list of course means that they’re not currently being produced, it’s not uncommon for Black List screenplays to eventually get the green light. One is set in the 1970s, the other in the 1980s.
In Kings of Maine, written by Kathy Charles:
Living with his wife and child in a trailer while working as a janitor, Stephen King struggles with alcoholism and his own dark history as he attempts to complete ‘Carrie.’
Maximum King!, penned by Shay Hatten, is described as:
An outlandish, surreal imagining of how in 1985 Stephen King wrote and directed his horror classic ‘Maximum Overdrive.’
Who do you think should play Stephen King, if a biopic gets made? Sound off below!
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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