{"id":104408,"date":"2018-08-17T11:26:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T10:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=104408"},"modified":"2018-08-17T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T10:26:01","slug":"stephen-kings-tommyknockers-film-in-talks-with-exorcist-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/stephen-kings-tommyknockers-film-in-talks-with-exorcist-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen King’s Tommyknockers film in talks with Exorcist writer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The film adaptation of Stephen King’s science fiction novel The Tommyknockers<\/strong><\/em> has found a writer in the form of Jeremy Slater, who is currently in talks for the film.<\/p>\n

Tommyknockers<\/strong> <\/em>will be far from Slater’s first venture into genre: the writer created and penned Fox’s The Exorcist<\/strong><\/em> series, as well as the upcoming Umbrella Academy<\/strong><\/em> series based on Gerard Way’s comic book series of the same name. He also wrote the scripts for Death Note<\/strong><\/em>, Pet<\/strong><\/em>, the 2015 version of Fantastic Four<\/strong><\/em> and The Lazarus Effect<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Slater will join a team made up of James Wan and Michael Clear (The Nun<\/strong><\/em>, Annabelle: Creation<\/strong><\/em>) and Roy Lee (It<\/strong><\/em>), all of whom are set to produce. The film is being produced under Wan’s Atomic Monster banner with Konigsberg\/Sanitsky and Lee and Jon Berg for Vertigo Entertainment.<\/p>\n

You can read the Amazon<\/a> synopsis for King’s novel here:<\/p>\n

Everything is familiar. But everything has changed.<\/p>\n

Coming back to the little community is like walking into a nightmare for Jim Gardener, poet, drunk, potential suicide.<\/p>\n

It all looks the same, the house, the furniture, Jim’s friend Bobbi, her beagle (though ageing), even the woods out at the back.<\/p>\n

But it was in the woods that Bobbi stumbled over the odd, part-buried object and felt a peculiar tingle as she brushed the soft earth away.<\/p>\n

Everything is familiar. But everything is about to change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Tommyknockers <\/strong><\/em>doesn’t yet have a release date. Get all the latest sci-fi news with every issue of SciFiNow. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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