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Fairy Tale (Movie)
Paul Greengrass To Adapt & Direct ‘Fairy Tale’
How’s this for a powerhouse pairing? Paul Greengrass will adapt, direct and produce a feature adaptation of Fairy Tale, the bestselling novel by Stephen King that Scribner just published. King is a fan of Greengrass’s films, and has granted him the option — at the usual $1 against a healthy backend — for an epic tale that follows a 17-year old boy who inherits the keys to a terrifying world where good and evil are at war. The stakes could not be higher, for that world and ours, as he journeys into the mythic roots of human storytelling. It is the world creation that King so excels at.
From what I’ve heard, the property will be shopped imminently, and I expect there to be no shortage of bidders as studios and streamers look for branded titles with global theatrical tent pole potential, especially in the skilled hands of a filmmaker like Greengrass.
Greengrass and Greg Goodman will produce the film.
The author and the filmmaker confirmed the alliance
“Needless to say, I’m a Paul Greengrass fan and think he’s a wonderful choice for this film,” said King.
Added Greengrass: “Fairy Tale is a work of genius. A classic adventure story and also a disturbing contemporary allegory,” Greengrass most recently directed the underrated News Of The World.
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Universal has won in an auction and competitive situation the rights to a planned adaptation of Stephen King’s latest book “Fairy Tale” from director Paul Greengrass, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
Greengrass last month optioned the rights to “Fairy Tale” and is both developing the feature and will also write the script, direct and produce. Greg Goodman will also produce.
A24 has taken on the Stephen King bestseller Fairy Tale. The dark fantasy will be mounted as a 10-episode series. Paul Greengrass, who wrote a script and expected to direct the feature, is expected to still be in the middle of things. That script will be expanded by Greengrass and J.H. Wyman, who will be the showrunner and whose credits include Fringe, Almost Human and Debris.
Peter Rice will be executive producer alongside Greengrass, Wyman and King. I’ve heard Greengrass will likely be involved as director, but his deal is not yet done. The other deals have closed.
The novel sparked a bidding battle back when it was auctioned in late 2022. Universal Pictures closed the deal, on the strength of the relationship the studio has with Greengrass over the Bourne Identity films, United 93 and News of the World.
The book clocked in at 600-plus pages. It was impossible to fold it all into a two-hour film. Universal let it go. Rice, who had read and loved the book, put it all back together at A24, with Greengrass remaining and Wyman joining him. As happened with King tales like The Stand, this just works better in longform storytelling.