Stephen King’s Fairy Story novel is being was a tv sequence.
Fairy Story was revealed in September 2022. Written by King, the novel follows a 17-year-old boy named Charlie Reade who finds himself in the course of a conflict between good and evil after he’s transported to a hidden realm.
Per Deadline, A24 is now adapting Fairy Story right into a ten-episode sequence.
What do we all know in regards to the Fairy Story sequence?
Paul Greengrass initially wrote a script for a Fairy Story adaptation and meant to show it right into a characteristic movie. Greengrass is now increasing the script with J. H. Wyman, who will function the sequence’ showrunner.
Greengrass additionally serves as an govt producer on the sequence with Peter Rice, Wyman, and King. Greengrass might also be concerned as a director, although this has not been confirmed at the moment.
“Charlie Reade seems to be like an everyday highschool child, nice at baseball and soccer, an honest scholar. However he carries a heavy load,” an outline of the novel reads. “His mother was killed in a horrific accident when he was seven, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie realized easy methods to deal with himself—and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a canine named Radar and her growing old grasp, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a giant home on the prime of a giant hill, with a locked shed within the yard. Generally unusual sounds emerge from it. Charlie begins doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his coronary heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a narrative nobody would imagine. What Bowditch is aware of, and has saved secret all his lengthy life, is that contained in the shed is a portal to a different world. King’s storytelling in Fairy Story soars. It is a magnificent and terrifying story by which good is pitted in opposition to overwhelming evil, and a heroic boy—and his canine—should lead the battle.”
Greengrass is thought for steering 2002’s Bloody Sunday, 2004’s The Bourne Supremacy, 2006’s United 93, 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum, 2010’s Inexperienced Zone, 2013’s Captain Phillips, 2016’s Jason Bourne, 2018’s 22 July, and 2020’s Information of the World. He’s presently engaged on a film titled The Misplaced Bus, which can be launched in 2025.
No casting or launch date info is out there at the moment for A24’s Fairy Story adaptation.