Like IT before it, Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot is making the leap from mini-series to feature film, with James Wan attached to produce the brand new adaptation and Gary Dauberman (IT, The Nun) writing. Speaking with Slash Film, Dauberman teases a scary new take on the material.
“I did have a unique way into it but again, I think the book in itself is unique,” Dauberman told the site. “Certainly now, I haven’t seen a scary vampire movie in a long, long time and I’d really love to tackle that. It’s one of my favorite books. It’s one of my favorite Stephen King books. We felt it should have the cinematic treatment that we gave IT; IT was a miniseries as well.”
He added, “The experience of bringing that to the big screen was such a joy that I was so happy we will have the opportunity to do that for Salem’s Lot.”
The novel, published in 1975, follows a writer who returns to the town of Jerusalem’s Lot where he lived as a child, only to discover everyone he used to know is now a vampire.
Fresh off Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Tobe Hooper directed the very first adaptation of Salem’s Lot back in 1979, and a mini-series followed in its wake more recently, in 2004.
Roy Lee and Mark Wolper will also produce, with Dauberman exec producing.
