Stephen King's Cujo Will Be Reimagined In New Netflix Adaptation

In the latest “here comes a caller remake” quality — or, if you’re a spot much optimistic, “here comes different Stephen King movie” quality — a marque caller adaptation of Cujo is astir to bare its teeth.

Netflix is acceptable to nutrient a caller movie mentation of King's story, according to Deadline, and has attached Vertigo Entertainment laminitis and shaper Roy Lee to produce. That said, things are genuinely successful their puppy days with this project, arsenic nary writers oregon directors are attached to the movie yet, fto unsocial immoderate whispers of a cast.

King’s caller was primitively published successful 1981 and was rapidly adapted for the surface by Don Carlos Dunaway and Barbara Turner for a 1983 cult classical fearfulness movie directed by Lewis Teague. The communicative follows a dedicated parent (played by Dee Wallace) who volition halt astatine thing to support a rabid canine from harming her young son. The brace extremity up stuck successful a car with a dormant motor and are forced to combat for endurance arsenic Cujo, who was bitten by a rabid bat and went from saccharine to relentlessly deadly, stalks them from extracurricular the conveyance and heatstroke threatens to acceptable in.

Cujo is conscionable 1 of the galore beloved King stories that went connected to beryllium a deed arsenic a movie implicit the years, and determination has been a resurgence of sorts recently. Oz Perkins’ mentation of King’s abbreviated The Monkey was conscionable released successful February, and we inactive person the Glen Powell-fronted mentation of The Running Man and Strange Darling manager JT Mollner’s rotation connected The Long Walk (also produced by Lee and Vertigo) to look guardant to this year, arsenic good arsenic the IT prequel bid Welcome to Derry astatine HBO. Carrie, the Stephen King classical that became a fearfulness movie icon, is acceptable to go an 8 occurrence Prime Video bid from fearfulness visionary Mike Flanagan.

King fans person been eating bully lately, and now, there’s adjacent much gourmet connected its way.

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Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.