The next Stephen King adaptation is never far away, and Mister Yummy is the king of horror’s latest work to receive the film treatment.
Deadline has learned that Intrinsic Value Films (Satan’s Little Helper, The Alphabet Killer) is introducing the project at the American Film Market.
The haunting tale follows a man confronting mortality where death waits around every corner and regret becomes the ghost that never leaves.
Troy Blake penned the screenplay. Intrinsic Value’s Aimee Schoof, Isen Robbins, and Megan Freels Johnston are producing with Thomas Mahoney.
Mister Yummy is the first short story to be adapted from King’s 2015 collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams.
Set at Lakeview Assisted Living Center, the story details the last days in the life of elderly homosexual Ollie Franklin, who is certain that he will die soon due to frequent visits by a beautiful man called Mister Yummy.
Other Stephen King adaptations in the works include: The Running Man, hitting theaters this weekend, “Carrie,” The Stand, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Rat, Autopsy Room Four, and Cujo.
