Post-IT: Chapter Two, Andy Muschietti is now attached to an adaptation of Stephen King’s Roadwork, with both Andy and sister Barbara Muschietti set to produce. But that’s not all, as Muschietti has revealed in a new chat with Consequence of Sound that he’s also still attached to an adaptation of another Stephen King story, The Jaunt!
Muschietti had first become attached to the adaptation back in 2015.
“[The Jaunt] has been in development with Plan B for a few years. We tried to crack it and now we finally have a writer that can do it,” Muschietti told the site. “I would love to. It’s tough to crack because it’s such a great short story, and then you have to expand it into a great film narrative. It took awhile, but now I think we got it. I don’t want to tell too much.”
The Jaunt was published in 1981 and became part of the Skeleton Crew collection in 1985. Wikipedia explains, “The story takes place early in the 24th century, when the technology for teleportation, referred to as “Jaunting”, is commonplace, allowing for instantaneous transportation across enormous distances, even to other planets in the solar system.”
“The key is that travelers must be under anesthesia for the short journey, or terrible things happen to the mind of those being jaunted around the solar system. Time stands still and one’s brain implodes with too much time to think in an absence of external stimulation. Bad things happen.”