James Wan is producing a new take on Stephen King‘s vampire story Salem’s Lot for New Line, with Gary Dauberman (It, The Nun, Annabelle Comes Home) attached to write the script and also direct the film. Tonight brings some more casting news.
Lewis Pullman (The Strangers: Prey at Night) had signed on to star last week, and Deadline reports today that Makenzie Leigh (Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk), Bill Camp (“The Queen’s Gambit”) and Spencer Treat Clark (Glass) will also star.
Pullman, as we previously told you, is playing main character Ben Mears, while “Leigh will play Susan Norton, Camp is Matthew Burke and Clark is Mike Ryerson.”
“In Salem’s Lot, author Ben Mears (Pullman) returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot in search of inspiration for his next book only to discover his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.”
Fresh off Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Tobe Hooper directed the very first adaptation of Salem’s Lot back in 1979, and a new mini-series followed in its wake more recently, in 2004.
Roy Lee and Mark Wolper will also produce the new movie, with Dauberman exec producing.
Spencer Treat Clark in ‘Glass’