‘Salem’s Lot’ Movie Delayed Nearly a Year
New Line has pushed back the film until April 21, 2023 due to COVID-19 related delays in post-production.
Based on Stephen King’s 1975 novel Salem’s Lot, Deadline reports that the latest adaptation also underwent a few extra days of photography in June. Written and directed by Gary Dauberman, this is the book’s first adaptation to hit the big screen. The film stars Lewis Pullman, Makenzie Leigh, Alfre Woodard, William Sadler, and Game of Thrones star Pilou Asbæk.
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ABOUT SALEM’S LOT
Writer Ben Mears has returned to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot in hopes that exploring the history of the Marsten House, an old mansion long the subject of rumor and speculation, will help him cast out his personal devils and provide inspiration for his new book.
But when two young boys venture into the woods and only one comes out alive, Mears begins to realize that there may be something sinister at work.
In time, he comes to understand that his hometown is under siege from forces of darkness far beyond his wildest imagination. And only he, with a small group of allies, can hope to contain the evil that is tearing the town apart.
“Stephen King has built a literary genre of putting ordinary people in the most terrifying situations. . . . He’s the author who can always make the improbable so scary you'll feel compelled to check the locks on the front door.” —The Boston Globe
“[King is] the guy who probably knows more about scary goings-on in confined, isolated places than anybody since Edgar Allan Poe.” —Entertainment Weekly
PREVIOUS ADAPTATIONS
Salem’s Lot has been adapted twice for television:
The first was directed in 1979 by horror icon Tobe Hooper, known for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and starred David Soul and James Mason. Buy the 1979 adaptation from Amazon.
The second miniseries was released in 2004 on TNT starring Rob Lowe. Buy the 2004 adaptation from Amazon.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Stephen King is the author of dozens of books, all worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and an AT&T Audience Network original television series).
His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, and Doctor Sleep are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest grossing horror film of all time.
He is the recipient of the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
