20th Century Studios and Hulu are moving forward with a two-hour feature adaptation of the famous Stephen King short story “The Boogeyman”.
Mark Heyman (“Black Swan”) has been writing recent drafts with Scott Beck & Bryan Woods (“A Quiet Place”) and Akela Cooper (“Malignant”) penning earlier versions.
The short was one of twenty in King’s most famous short story collection “Night Shift” with multiple films having adapted stories from it including “Children of the Corn,” “Graveyard Shift,” “Maximum Overdrive,” “The Mangler,” “Sometimes They Come Back,” “The Lawnmower Man,” and both “Chapelwaite” (adapting “Jerusalem’s Lot”), and “Cat’s Eye” (adapting “Quitters, Inc.” and “The Ledge”).
“The Boogeyman” was arguably the scariest work in the collection and follows a man who visits a psychiatrist and recounts how each of his three toddler children over the years was killed in their cribs by a sadistic presence that has been following him.
The film’s official synopsis however sounds quite different and follows a teenage girl and her little brother who find themselves plagued by a sadistic presence in their house and struggle to get their grieving and recently widowed father to pay attention before it’s too late.
Filming will kick off this winter/spring in New Orleans with Rob Savage (“Dashcam”) set to direct while Shawn Levy, Dan Levine & Dan Cohen are producing.
Source: Deadline
