Upcoming remakes

Stephen King's literary production is so prolific it has been adapted to the big screen in multiple occasions. His horrific classics have been produced by grand directors like Tommy Lee Wallace, director of the 1990 It miniseries, or Stanley Kubrick, director of 1980 The Shining. Some of his novels were granted with more than one adaptation. This is the case of Carrie, a 1974 novel that has been taken adapted to film in 1976 by director Brian De Palma and in 2013 by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, and to Broadway in 1988.

The coming years will be thrilling to the hordes of SK fans who populate our planet. In 2019, there will be a remake of the 1983 novel Pet Sematary, which was first adapted in 1989, and which presents a family who moves to a small neighbourhood, and who discovers an old pet cemetery, where legend says that pets who are buried there come back to life. Also, the 2017 box-office hit It will have a second chapter next year, where we will see the young kids as grown adults who return to Derry to try and end the murdering clown Pennywise. But there’s also more: the 2012 novella In the Tall Grass, written in collaboration with one of King’s sons, Joe Hill, is expected to be adapted soon. The plot consists of a pair of siblings who find themselves in a grass field where they seem to be trapped in. Also, the 1979 short novel The Long Walk (which was published under King’s pen name “Richard Bachman”), will have a movie adaptation, as well as the recent Doctor Sleep. The Long Walk deals with a series of teenagers who each year participate in a deadly race, in which they can only walk until one of them is left standing; while Doctor Sleep can be seen as a sequel to Stephen King’s acclaimed The Shining, in which Danny Torrance, grown up, establishes a telepathic bond with a young girl, whom he has to find and protect from a group of people who seem to kill people with supernatural powers in order to acquire their own powers.

Thus, if you are one of those who devour with ferocious appetite every Stephen King novel, you will be pleased (or not) with new cinematographic material in the near future. Pretty exciting, isn't it?