“Doctor Sleep” and “Gerald’s Game” writer/director Mike Flanagan and producer Trevor Macy are reuniting for a third Stephen King adaptation – this time the 2014 novel “Revival” at Warner Bros. Pictures.
The novel dealt with the relationship between a heroin-addicted musician and a dubious faith healer with a hidden agenda. The minister is obsessed with trying to find a way to communicate with his departed wife and child but ends up connecting to a Lovecraftian horror.
Flanagan is writing the script with an option to direct while both will produce. “The Fault in Our Stars” and “The New Mutants” helmer Josh Boone previously tried to adapt the material but that project never coalesced. Boone remains at work on the new “The Stand” mini-series adaptation.
Still, the duo, who were behind the critically acclaimed Netflix series Haunting of Hill House, were able to engender a following for the movie post-release and nab Revival as a King follow-up. This is the third King project for the team, which also took on Gerald’s Game.
Source: Heat Vision
