Cannes: Stephen King Novel Geralds Game To Be Adapted By Oculus Helmer Mike Flanagan And Intrepid Pictures
By MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday May 18, 2014 @ 6:17am PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, Gerald's Game, Intrepid Pictures, Mike Flanagan, Oculus, Stephen King
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EXCLUSIVE: Oculus and Somnia director Mike Flanagan has http://www-deadline-com.vimg.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/gerald__140518131440.jpgcommitted to next helm Geralds Game, based on the bestselling novel by Stephen King. Flanagan wrote the script with his writing partner Jeff Howard. Trevor Macy and his Intrepid Pictures banner will produce, as he also did on Flanagans two horror films.
Flanagan and Macy originaly intended the next picture to be Diver, a film that would have started production this summer. Theyve pushed that picture back and instead will plunge full on into Geralds Game, which is casting for a fall start and will be selling here at Cannes. King is very hands on and particular about filmmakers he trusts with rights to his novels. He takes option fees as low as $1, and when you are lucky enough to get one, you try to move fast.
http://www-deadline-com.vimg.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/flan__140518131621.jpgGeralds Game revolves around a seemingly harmless contest between a married couple in a remote retreat. It escalates to become a harrowing fight for survival, wife Jessie must confront long-buried demons within her own mind and possibly lurking in the shadows of her seemingly empty house.
In the tradition of Misery and Dolores Claiborne, Geralds Game is one of the most intense and compelling novels Ive ever read, and this has been a dream project for many years. Trevor and I are very excited to help translate that experience for an audience, said Flanagan, wholl push Diver back to 2015. Flanagan and Howard are repped by APA and Nelson Davis Wetzstein. Paradigm represents King, Macy, Intrepid and film sales for Geralds Game.
By MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday May 18, 2014 @ 6:17am PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, Gerald's Game, Intrepid Pictures, Mike Flanagan, Oculus, Stephen King
http://www.deadline.com/print-post/...This=true/TB_iframe=true&height=500&width=750
EXCLUSIVE: Oculus and Somnia director Mike Flanagan has http://www-deadline-com.vimg.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/gerald__140518131440.jpgcommitted to next helm Geralds Game, based on the bestselling novel by Stephen King. Flanagan wrote the script with his writing partner Jeff Howard. Trevor Macy and his Intrepid Pictures banner will produce, as he also did on Flanagans two horror films.
Flanagan and Macy originaly intended the next picture to be Diver, a film that would have started production this summer. Theyve pushed that picture back and instead will plunge full on into Geralds Game, which is casting for a fall start and will be selling here at Cannes. King is very hands on and particular about filmmakers he trusts with rights to his novels. He takes option fees as low as $1, and when you are lucky enough to get one, you try to move fast.
http://www-deadline-com.vimg.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/flan__140518131621.jpgGeralds Game revolves around a seemingly harmless contest between a married couple in a remote retreat. It escalates to become a harrowing fight for survival, wife Jessie must confront long-buried demons within her own mind and possibly lurking in the shadows of her seemingly empty house.
In the tradition of Misery and Dolores Claiborne, Geralds Game is one of the most intense and compelling novels Ive ever read, and this has been a dream project for many years. Trevor and I are very excited to help translate that experience for an audience, said Flanagan, wholl push Diver back to 2015. Flanagan and Howard are repped by APA and Nelson Davis Wetzstein. Paradigm represents King, Macy, Intrepid and film sales for Geralds Game.