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‘Gwendy’s Button Box,’ Co-Written By Stephen King, Getting a Sequel With ‘Gwendy’s Magic Feather’
Back in 2017, Cemetery Dance published the novel Gwendy’s Button Box, which was written by the duo of Stephen King and Richard Chizmar. King is not returning to co-write the sequel, EW reports today, but he has given his blessing to Chizmar for the follow-up solo venture.
Titled Gwendy’s Magic Feather, the sequel picks up 25 years after the first novel.
In Gwendy’s Button Box, a 12-year-old girl receives a gift from a strange man in a black hat: a mystical box with various buttons that dispenses good fortune to its user while unleashing calamities elsewhere. Gwendy’s Magic Feather revisits Gwendy Peterson 25 years later.
The sequel will feature a foreword by Stephen King.
To learn more about the novel, releasing November 19, read the full EW interview piece.
Netflix is reuniting with Emilia Perez director Jacques Audiard on an adaptation of French horror novel La Nuit ravagée, Variety reports today.
The project is described as an elevated horror film based on the critically acclaimed horror novel by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo.
It’s set in “Saint-Auch, a fictional suburb on the outskirts of Toulouse in Southern France, in the early 1990s. It follows a group of teenagers drawn to an abandoned house that exerts a strange power on them. After one of their friends dies under disturbing circumstances, they decide to enter the house, not suspecting it’s alive with something supernatural. Once they enter it, it begins to feed on their private fears, desires, and traumas, turning their psychological vulnerabilities into something monstrous and inescapable.“
The French-language Netflix original marks Audiard’s first foray into horror.
The divisive Emilia Perez, Audiard’s Spanish-language musical crime drama, amassed 13 nominations at the 97th Academy Awards but also met with controversy when offensive tweets by star Karla Sofía Gascón during the film’s award campaign.
Del Amo’s source novel was published last year and has been described as an homage to ’80s and ’90s horror in the vein of Stephen King, though its social realism is what lends itself to the elevated horror concept and Audiard’s attachment to the project.
Stay tuned for more as it arrives.
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