Stephen King’s Fairy Story novel is being changed into a tv collection.
Fairy Story was printed in September 2022. Written by King, the novel follows a 17-year-old boy named Charlie Reade who finds himself in the midst of a battle between good and evil after he’s transported to a hidden realm.
Per Deadline, A24 is now adapting Fairy Story right into a ten-episode collection.
What do we all know in regards to the Fairy Story collection?
Paul Greengrass initially wrote a script for a Fairy Story adaptation and supposed to show it right into a characteristic movie. Greengrass is now increasing the script with J. H. Wyman, who will function the collection’ showrunner.
Greengrass additionally serves as an govt producer on the collection with Peter Rice, Wyman, and King. Greengrass may also be concerned as a director, although this has not been confirmed right now.
“Charlie Reade appears to be like like an everyday highschool child, nice at baseball and soccer, an honest pupil. However he carries a heavy load,” an outline of the novel reads. “His mother was killed in a horrific accident when he was seven, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie discovered methods to handle himself—and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a canine named Radar and her ageing grasp, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in an enormous home on the prime of an enormous hill, with a locked shed within the yard. Typically unusual sounds emerge from it. Charlie begins doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his coronary heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a narrative nobody would imagine. What Bowditch is aware of, and has stored secret all his lengthy life, is that contained in the shed is a portal to a different world. King’s storytelling in Fairy Story soars. This can be a magnificent and terrifying story wherein good is pitted in opposition to overwhelming evil, and a heroic boy—and his canine—should lead the battle.”
Greengrass is understood for steering 2002’s Bloody Sunday, 2004’s The Bourne Supremacy, 2006’s United 93, 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum, 2010’s Inexperienced Zone, 2013’s Captain Phillips, 2016’s Jason Bourne, 2018’s 22 July, and 2020’s Information of the World. He’s at present engaged on a film titled The Misplaced Bus, which can be launched in 2025.
No casting or launch date info is offered right now for A24’s Fairy Story adaptation.
