Stephen King‘s new novel Fairy Tale is getting a movie adaptation from Paul Greengrass, we recently learned, and now Deadline reports that Universal Pictures has come on board.
Greengrass (Captain Phillips, Jason Bourne) will adapt, direct, and produce the movie, with Universal Pictures winning a hot bidding war for the adaptation this week.
Deadline reports, “Studios and streamers were all over this one since Deadline revealed that Greengrass would direct. Key to the deal making at Uni is the strong relationship that Greengrass has at the studio and with Universal Filmed Entertainment Group Chairman Donna Langley.”
King’s latest novel is “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.”
“Needless to say, I’m a Paul Greengrass fan and think he’s a wonderful choice for this film,” Stephen King said in a recent statement shared by Deadline.
Greengrass told the site, “Fairy Tale is a work of genius. A classic adventure story and also a disturbing contemporary allegory.”
King recently said of the inspiration behind the novel, “I saw a vast deserted city—deserted but alive. I saw the empty streets, the haunted buildings, a gargoyle head lying overturned in the street. I saw smashed statues (of what I didn’t know, but I eventually found out). I saw a huge, sprawling palace with glass towers so high their tips pierced the clouds. I saw a magic sundial that could turn back time. Those images released the story I wanted to tell.”
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