JJ Abrams and Leonardo DiCaprio to adapt a Stephen King psychological thriller

Stephen King’s adaptations are almost always a guaranteed success, as he is one, if not the most successful horror and suspense writer of all time. Now, the producer of JJ Abrams and Leonardo DiCaprio will be tasked with making one of their most recent psychological thrillers a reality. This is ‘Billy Summers’, which will be brought to the big screen.

According to information from Deadline, Warner Bros. Discovery has acquired the rights to Stephen King’s ‘Billy Summers’. This is one of the most recent and successful novels of the writer, which has brought stories like ‘It’ or ‘The Shining’, not to mention the large number of adaptations that Netflix has made of his work, such as ‘In the Tall Grass’ or Mike Flanagan’s “Gerald’s Game.”

The adaptation will be developed by Bad Robot, the company of JJ Abrams and Leonardo DiCaprio, will take care of making ‘Billy Summers”. And while there is currently no confirmation that either will be directly responsible, the Oscar winner is expected to lead the story, while the director of ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ waits to be the creative or plot supervisor.

Initially, ‘Stephen King’s Billy Summers was going to be a 10-episode series, but has now been made into a film, to be written by Ed Zwick, who penned the script for ‘The Last Samurai’ with Tom Cruise. At the moment there are all the details on this thriller, so it is expected that there will be more information about it over the next few months.

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What is Stephen King’s Billy Summers story about?

Within his vast catalog, ‘Billy Summers’ is one of Stephen King’s most successful psychological thrillers. The story follows Billy, a former Navy sniper who has now become a contract killer, but who has an unbreakable code to only take out what he considers “bad people”, a kind of Marvel’s Punisher. .

It is then that Billy will withdraw completely from this world, that he will take one last job. The soldier moves to a small town where he has to pose as a writer, and rents an office where he can see his target, Joel Allen, an assassin accused of shooting two men during a poker game. . But as he studies the mission, he realizes something shady is cooking and a dark secret is revealed.

“Billy Summers” was the best-selling fiction book during its release, according to The New York Times, and was lauded for its suspenseful mystery story. So it will be interesting to hear how this psychological thriller is being adapted to the big screen, from the same studio that took over Apple TV’s “Lisey’s Story.”