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The Tommyknockers remake

Lou_SytsmaLou_Sytsma
edited March 2018 in Adaptations
NBC has announced plans for upcoming miniseries, including a remake of "The Tommyknockers".

From IGN:

NBC announced they will be doing miniseries remakes of two horror well-known stories - Rosemary's Baby and Stephen King's The Tommyknockers. Based on a novel, Rosemary's Baby was of course also an iconic 1968 feature film from Roman Polanski, starring Mia Farrow, while The Tommyknockers was done as a miniseries in 1993. In making the announcement about The Tommyknockers, NBC Chairman Robert Greenblatt acknowledged CBS's success with Under the Dome as perhaps helping them take a look at the Stephen King catalog.

Scott Abbott (Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Winchell) will serve as writer on Rosemary’s Baby. Executive producers are Joshua Maurer, David Stern, Perri Kipperman and Alix Witlin. Executive producers on The Tommyknockers are Frank Konigsberg and Larry Sanitsky. Emmy Award winner Yves Simoneau (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee) is attached to direct.

Comments

  • Lou_SytsmaLou_Sytsma
    Much prefer NBC would do another of King's works. Have little interest in this.
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Five years later -- change of plans!


    Stephen King’s “The Tommyknockers” is being developed as a movie by producers James Wan and Roy Lee.

    Wan, who’s directing “Aquaman” and produces “The Conjuring” franchise, will produce through his Atomic Monster company. Lee, whose credits include “It,” the Lego movies, and “The Departed,” will produce through Vertigo Entertainment. The duo has teamed up with Larry Sanitsky, who executive produced the 1993 ABC miniseries adaptation of “The Tommyknockers,” starring Jimmy Smits and Marg Helgenberger.

    The producers began shopping the package to studios through Paradigm on Thursday. “It is an allegorical tale of addiction (Stephen was struggling with his own at the time), the threat of nuclear power, the danger of mass hysteria, and the absurdity of technical evolution run amuck,” Sanitsky said. “All are as relevant today as the day the novel was written. It is also a tale about the eternal power of love and the grace of redemption.”
  • willowlovewillowlove
    Universal Wins Stephen King's 'Tommyknockers' Bidding War

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/univeral-wins-stephen-kings-tommyknockers-bidding-war-1104737


  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Writer Jeremy Slater (FOX’s “The Exorcist,” “Fantastic Four,”) has been tapped to write “Tommyknockers,” a feature film based on Stephen King’s 1987 sci-fi horror novel, for Universal, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
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