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Students at the Blaenau Gwent Film Academy are Adapting Stephen King’s Short Story ‘Stationary Bike’
As part of his “Dollar Baby” arrangement, Stephen King allows film students and aspiring filmmakers to adapt his short stories in exchange for a single dollar, and BBC reports today that students at the UK’s Blaenau Gwent Film Academy have taken King up on the offer with an adaptation of his Stationary Bike, published in 2003.
The academy was offered a Dollar Baby contract after writing to King.
“Being given an opportunity to bring one of Stephen King’s novels to life is crazy,” said 16-year-old Alfie Evans, who will work on the script along with GCSE drama student Cerys Cliff.
The short story is is about an artist cycling to lose weight after being told he has dangerously high cholesterol and entering a trance, where he experiences nightmarish scenarios.
Stationary Bike was originally published in the fifth edition of From the Borderlands in 2003. In 2008, it was published in King’s collection, Just After Sunset.
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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