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The Ten o'Clock People
Tom Holland has signed to direct THE TEN O’CLOCK PEOPLE, based on King’s short story of the same title (from the NIGHTMARES & DREAMSCAPES collection), for Making Ten O’Clock Productions. The plot concerns a man named Brandon Pearson who is trying to quit the killer weed, but after dropping a popular cessation drug called Zynex, he finds himself able to see a frightening side of reality that leads him to take violent action. “ ‘The Ten O’Clock People’ was Stephen trying to deal with his cigarette jones,” says Holland, who previously helmed the King feature THINNER (out on a new DVD and Blu-ray from Olive Films August 21) and the two-part TV movie THE LANGOLIERS. “I know, because we spent a dinner talking about it. He was still doing three, four Pall Mall Reds unfiltered a day, while I had cut back to a few Benson & Hedges Lights. He wrote it because he hated the no-smoking laws. The film will be a modernization of the original short story, a paranoid suspense piece.”
E.J. Meyers and Nathaniel Kramer are producing THE TEN O’CLOCK PEOPLE, which will shoot this year targeting a 2013 release.
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E.J. Meyers and Nathaniel Kramer are producing THE TEN O’CLOCK PEOPLE, which will shoot this year targeting a 2013 release.
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So glad to read it's not Steve Weber for a change!
The adaptation of King's short story, first published in Nightmares and Dreamscapes in 1993, is being directed by Tom Holland. Holland, a 1980s horror maven who wrote and directed Fright Night and Child's Play, previously tackled King’s Thinner and The Langoliers.
The story centers on a man who, when attempting to kick his smoking habit, has his eyes opened to a frightening reality in which many people in authority are monsters. He joins a group of others like him called the Ten O’Clock People.
Nichols would play a woman who, like the man, can see a horrible aspect of reality, hidden in plain sight.
Asked whether it sticks close to the original story or ventures off, Holland said, "Oh, we venture off a lot."
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To be expected. Hope it retains the core of the story.
We were thinking about what kind of people would be exerting this control. It felt like the government trying to control our personal habits. As the internet and digital is growing, the ability of authorities to track you, know what you’re doing, and limit your personal behavior is growing. It seemed to me that the themes that were in The Ten O’Clock People went further than just having a cigarette. I thought it was an interesting platform to make a metaphor of what could happen if things went wrong.
What I’ve done is added a drug element. It’s about people who have taken a stop smoking drug and went back to smoking. Then they start seeing things that they shouldn’t be seeing.”
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Pascal Borno and Scott Karol’s Conquistador Entertainment, Holland’s Dead Rabbit Films and E.J. Meyers, Robin Reitman and Nathaniel Kramer’s Making Ten O’clock Productions will produce the film, which Borno and Karol are selling at Cannes.
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Tom Holland, the horrormeister behind Fright Night and Child’s Play, wrote the script and will direct the chiller, which is eyeing a June start in Baruchel’s hometown of Montreal.
Baruchel starred in last year’s acclaimed comedy This Is The End and next appears with Joel Kinnaman and Michael Keaton in Robocop, which opens February 14. He voicestars in How to Train Your Dragon 2, opening June 13, and is writing Goon 2.
He also just signed on to star in FX’s comedy pilot Man Seeking Woman.