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Salem's Lot Reboot Gets Major Release Update
Earlier this year came the surprising news that Warner Bros. had removed the upcoming reboot of Stephen King's Salem's Lot from their release calendar. This came after a previous delay in the vampire movie, leading many to worry that perhaps the movie was being cancelled outright (which isn't out of the question since Warner Bros. Discovery has been doing that a lot lately). The film just secured a major update for its release prospects however with the Motion Picture Association confirming the movie has been officially rated. As expected, the new Salem's Lot is rated R for "R for bloody violence and language."
Filmmaker Gary Dauberman, who previously cut his Stephen King teeth by adapting IT into the two feature films, wrote and directed the adaptation. Dauberman previously wrote several films in The Conjuring franchise, including directing Annabelle Comes Home. The new film stars Lewis Pullman, Makenzie Leigh, Alfre Woodard, Bill Camp, John Benjamin Hickey, Nicholas Crovetti, Jordan Preston Carter, William Sadler, Spencer Treat Clark, Cade Woodward, Debra Christofferson, and Pilou Asbaek.
"It's a scary thing doing these remakes, man. It's like, this and [Top Gun: Maverick], there's such pressure, it's a hard concoction to conjure up to make it successful," Pullman previously told ComicBook.com about the film. "But Gary Dauberman, the director, is really keen on doing justice to the book. But also, the previous adaptation was a two-parter, because it's such a hefty book and there are so many different moving parts and so many characters. So there are some parts where Gary had to press and find what was really at the heart of the movie to keep in, but for the most part, he's really true to the book and keeping a lot of the original dialogue in there. He's a Stephen King hound dog so he doesn't wanna do Stephen dirty."
Pullman stars in the movie as lead character Ben Mears, who returns to his childhood home Jerusalem's Lot while attempting to work on his next novel only to realize that a vampire has taken hold of the town. Makenzie Leigh (Gotham, The Assistant) as Susan Norton, Mears' love interest and a helpful hand in the fight against the vampire; Bill Camp (Joker) as Matthew Burke, a local high school English teacher that reveals to Mears the evils of the Marsten House; and Spencer Treat Clark (Unbreakable) as Mike Ryerson, the local gravedigger who becomes one of the town's vampires.
Salem's Lot does not have a release date, but now that it has a rating, that's naturally the next step.
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Salems-Lot-4K-Blu-ray/323890/
Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot Adaptation is Scary But Stretched
The studio is looking to jettison its horror film “Salem’s Lot” to Max, sources say. Warner Bros. developed it for a theatrical rollout, but after sitting on the shelf for a year, the Gary Dauberman-directed Stephen King adaptation is poised to make its debut on the Warner Bros. Discovery streaming platform.
A source with knowledge of the back-and-forth says the move is not a reflection of the film’s quality but is due to the fact that the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike has created a growing need for Max content. “Salem’s Lot” is one of a few Warner Bros. films deemed to make the jump. But a Warner Bros. spokesperson said, “No decision has been made about the film’s future distribution plans.”
>>> Variety
....everytime a bell rings, another SK project gets it's wings.....
“Salem’s Lot,” the long-gestating adaptation of Stephen King’s 1975 bestselling novel about vampires, will debut on streaming instead of premiering in theaters.
New Line, the studio behind the horror film, officially announced that “Salem’s Lot” will appear on Max in 2024. Variety previously reported that the movie was forgoing a traditional theatrical rollout in favor of a streaming bow. Both New Line and Max share a parent company in Warner Bros. Discovery.
“Salem’s Lot” was originally intended as a September 2022 release, but the studio pushed the film to spring 2023, citing COVID-related postproduction delays. It later took the movie off the release calendar.
Since David Zaslav took over as CEO of the media conglomerate after AT&T spun-off WarnerMedia and merged it with Discovery, the company has mostly resisted debuting films straight-to-streaming, arguing that releasing them in cinemas raises their profile and adds revenues. It has also cancelled a handful of titles, such as “Batgirl,” using them as tax write-offs instead of releasing them to the public.
That won’t be the case with “Salem’s Lot,” which reunites the producing teams behind the “The Conjuring” universe and the “It” films, two of the company’s most successful franchises. Gary Dauberman (“Annabelle”) writes, directs, and executive produces with James Wan and Michael Clear for Atomic Monster and Roy Lee for Vertigo alongside Mark Wolper.
In the movie, author Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot looking to come up with idea for a new novel. However, he discovers his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodsucking vampires. “Salem’s Lot” was previously adapted as a two-part CBS miniseries in 1979.
In the new version, Lewis Pullman stars as Ben Mears, leading an ensemble that includes Alfre Woodard, Makenzie Leigh, Bill Camp, Spencer Treat Clark, Pilou Asbæk and John Benjamin Hickey. The film was executive produced by Michael Bederman, Vertigo’s Andrew Childs, and Atomic Monster’s Judson Scott.