The Cujo Netflix film is now at the moment in pre-production, after the streamer efficiently obtained the rights to Stephen King‘s 1981 horror thriller novel of the identical title. Previous to the upcoming Netflix adaptation, the novel was first tailored right into a film in 1983 by director Lewis Teague.
What do we all know concerning the Cujo Netflix film?
The Cujo Netflix film can be produced by Roy Lee. In the intervening time, the streamer is trying to find potential writers who would write the remake’s screenplay. The 1983 film starred Dee Wallace, Danny Pintauro, Daniel Hugh-Kelly, Christopher Stone, Ed Lauter, Billy Jacoby, and extra. Throughout its theatrical run, the horror thriller initially obtained combined evaluations from critics. Nonetheless, it will definitely garnered a cult following over time.
The unique novel’s official synopsis reads: “The Cambers’ once-friendly St. Bernard turns right into a killer after being bitten by a rabid bat. Donna Trenton’s husband is in New York making an attempt to comprise a disastrous advert marketing campaign. Feeling deserted by her workaholic husband, who’s ceaselessly out of city, Donna Trenton embarks on an affair with an area handyman. Left to fend for herself, she takes her ailing Pinto to Joe Cambers’ storage for repairs solely to be trapped along with her son Tad within the sweltering automobile by the monstrous canine.”
This marks the most recent Stephen King novel that can be receiving a film adaptation quickly. In addition to Cujo, King’s dysptopian novels The Working Man and The Lengthy Stroll are each being tailored into motion pictures, which at the moment are in manufacturing. As well as, HBO can be getting ready for the upcoming premiere of its It prequel collection Welcome to Derry, which can function the return of Invoice Skarsgard as Pennywise the Clown.
(Supply: Deadline)
