

and New Line, with Gary Dauberman ( It, The Nun, Annabelle Comes Home) writing the script and also directing the new movie. I think, not just lean on the jump scares, but lean on the more conceptual and visual things that, rather than a shock that fades out of your body in the next five minutes, something that’s more visual, like an imprint that burnt into your retinas as a disturbing image that you’ll wake up in the middle of the night that you can’t shake out of your head.” The actor adds, “So I think it’s in good hands, Gary’s a really smart guy who has a keen eye for things. He’s a Stephen King hound dog so he doesn’t wanna do Stephen dirty.” So there are some parts where Gary had to press and find what was really at the heart of the movie to keep in, but for the most part, he’s really true to the book and keeping a lot of the original dialogue in there. But also, 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. Pullman tells the site, “ Gary Dauberman, the director, is really keen on doing justice to the book.

How faithful is the new adaptation? According to Pullman, quite faithful. In the meantime, star Lewis Pullman ( The Strangers: Prey at Night) has offered up some thoughts on Salem’s Lot in a chat with, teasing the faithfulness to Stephen King‘s novel. As we learned over the summer, the WB/New Line movie is now without a release date entirely, and we’re waiting to hear more on that. The new adaptation of Salem’s Lotfrom director Gary Dauberman ( It, The Nun, Annabelle Comes Home) is currently missing in action, originally set for release in September 2022 before more recently being bumped to April 2023.
