The new film adaptation of Stephen King’s SALEM’S LOT could skip theaters and hit the big time

One film I’ve been really excited to watch is the new film adaptation Stephen King’S Salem’s Lot. I watched the trailer for this movie a couple of years ago and it looked like it would make a great horror movie! But, for some reason, Warner Bros. has yet to release it.

The studio initially developed the film for theatrical release, but after sitting on the shelf for over a year, it appears the film will instead be released on the Max streaming service. Variety reports, “A source familiar with the back and forth says the move doesn’t reflect the quality of the film but is because the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike has created a growing need for Max content. Salem’s Lot is one of the few Warner Bros. films deemed capable of making the leap.”

But a Warner Bros. spokesperson said, “No decisions have been made about future distribution plans for the film.” So there is still a possibility that the film will be released theatrically, and that’s what I’m for.

Lewis Pullman (Bad times at the El Royale, Top Gun: Maverick) stars inside Salem’s Lotand will take on the role of author Ben Mears, “a man who returns to his childhood home, Jerusalem’s Lot, in search of inspiration for his next book, only to find that his hometown has been taken over by a vampire, which led him to form a gang.” along with a ragtag group who will fight the evil presence.

Speaking previously about the film, Pullman said: “It’s scary to do these remakes, man. It’s like this and [Top Gun: Maverick], there is so much pressure that it is difficult to create a blend to be successful. But Gary Dauberman, the director, really cares about doing the book justice. Also, the previous adaptation was split into two parts, because it’s a really heavy book and there are so many different moving parts and so many characters. So there are some parts where Gary had to push and find what was really the heart of the film to keep, but for the most part he’s really faithful to the book and keeps a lot of the original dialogue. He’s a Stephen King hound, so he doesn’t want to get Stephen dirty.”

He added: “So I think he’s in good hands, Gary’s a really smart guy who has a keen eye for things. I think he doesn’t just lean into jump scares, but he leans into the more conceptual and visual stuff which, rather than to a shock that fades from your body in the next five minutes, something that is more visual, like an imprint that is imprinted on your retinas like a disturbing image that you will wake up from in the middle of the night and from which you cannot shake the your head.”

The film comes from the director Gary Daubermann and even stars Jordan Preston Carter as Mark Petrie, Alfredo Woodard as Doctor Cody, Makenzie Leigh as Susan Norton, John Benjamin Hickey as Father Callahan, and William Sadler in a currently unannounced role. James Wan he is a producer of the film.

Source: variety