{"id":84494,"date":"2016-02-11T10:24:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T10:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=84494"},"modified":"2016-02-11T10:24:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T10:24:39","slug":"stephen-kings-revival-movie-wants-samuel-l-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/stephen-kings-revival-movie-wants-samuel-l-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen King&#8217;s Revival movie wants Samuel L Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was recently announced that Josh Boone would be making a film of Stephen King&#8217;s recent horror novel <strong><em>Revival<\/em><\/strong> during the long sorting-out process for his movie of <strong><em>The Stand<\/em><\/strong>. Now, the first casting rumour has dropped.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/article\/2016\/02\/10\/samuel-l-jackson-revival?xid=entertainment-weekly_socialflow_twitter\">EW<\/a> reports that Samuel L Jackson is &#8220;circling&#8221; the role of preacher Charlie Jacobs, which would be his third King collaboration after the underrated <strong><em>1408<\/em><\/strong> and the upcoming <strong><em>Cell<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If this rumour turns out to be true, it&#8217;s an excellent choice. Jacobs goes on a big journey throughout the book, remaining a huge presence in the life of narrator Jamie Morton. EW describes him as &#8220;a charismatic, small-town preacher who begins experimenting with the supernatural using electricity after his wife and child are killed in an accident.&#8221; We&#8217;d love to see Jackson take on this character.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Revival<\/em><\/strong> is about &#8220;a charismatic preacher who loses his faith when his wife and child are killed in a tragic accident. Unhinged from the religion that grounded and gave him a conscience, the preacher becomes ruthless in his experimentation into the healing but dangerous power of electrical current, positioning him to act as God-like faith healer and opening a terrifying Pandora\u2019s Box. Intertwined with the preacher is a young man with demons of his own, who has benefited from the preacher\u2019s talents and becomes a reluctant accomplice to his deadly obsession.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep up with the latest genre news\u00a0with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/index.php\/catalog\/product\/view\/id\/4152\/s\/scifinow-issue-116\/?utm_source=SciFiNow&amp;utm_medium=cover&amp;utm_campaign=Product-Widget\">the new issue of SciFiNow<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel L Jackson up for beefy role in Josh Boone&#8217;s Revival<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":84495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[2951,608],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/the-hateful-eight-image-samuel-l-jackson.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}