Warner Bros. Pictures still hasn’t committed to a fixed release date yet for its upcoming film adaptation of Stephen King’s iconic novel “Salem’s Lot”.
Gary Dauberman helms the new take on the famed vampire tale, which has seen two previous adaptations in 1979 and 2004, both of which came in the form of mini-series and neither of which was that well received.
The new take is a single stand-alone film, and one of the film’s stars Lewis Pullman recently told Comicbook.com that the project aims to be true to the original book as much as possible:
“For the most part, [Dauberman’s] really true to the book and [is] keeping a lot of the original dialogue in there. He’s a Stephen King hound dog, so he doesn’t wanna do Stephen dirty.
The previous adaptation was a two-parter because it’s such a hefty book, and there are so many different moving parts and so many characters. So there are some parts where Gary had to press and find what was really at the heart of the movie to keep in.”
Pullman stars as author Ben Mears, a man who returns to his hometown of Jerusalem’s Lot only to find it is slowly being taken over by vampires. Alfre Woodard, Bill Camp, William Sadler, Makenzie Leigh, John Benjamin Hickey, Pilou Asbæk, Jordan Preston Carter, and Spencer Treat Clark also star.
