Following critical raves for Warners’ “Doctor Sleep” and Netflix’s “Gerald’s Game,” filmmaker Mike Flanagan has offered an update on a third film adaptation of a Stephen King horror novel he has in the works – “Revival”.
Also in production at Warners, Flanagan came on board the project a few months ago and has now confirmed completion of his first draft of the screenplay to The Kingcast. He calls it “dark and cynical” and says the author has given his approval:
“What I love about it is it’s a return to cosmic horror, which I think is so fun. It is relentlessly dark and cynical and I’m enjoying the hell out of that. This is just bleak and mean and I like it for that. I haven’t gotten to end a movie that way since ‘Absentia,’ maybe? Maybe ‘Ouija’? This one was a really fun piece of material for me because I get to be like, ‘Oh, you want a dark ending? Okay. Cool. Get ready.'”
The 2014 novel centered on a relationship between a heroin-addicted musician and a dubious faith healer with a hidden agenda, with the minister obsessed with trying to find a way to communicate with his departed wife and child. In the process he accidentally taps into a horror from beyond the stars.
A film adaptation was previously in the works at Universal Pictures with Josh Boone set to write and direct the project. Boone recently helmed the CBS All Access event series adaptation of “The Stand” airing later this year.
Flanagan and Trevor Macy will produce.
