New Film Adaptation of Stephen King’s SALEM’S LOT Will Include a Change to the Ending

The new adaptation from Warner Bros. and New Line Stephen King’S Salem’s Lot It’s a film that has excited me ever since I saw the first trailer at CinemaCon a couple of years ago.

I was really impressed by the footage, but unfortunately we will not be given the opportunity to see the film on the big screen because Warner Bros. has chosen to distribute it on Max.

Entertainment Weekly recently published an article about the film and revealed that the final showdown between Ben Mears and his allies and the ancient vampire Kurt Barlow and his undead minions will play out differently than in the source material.

It is explained: “This Salem’s Lot It also feels, in a way, like an action film for both stars. The final sequence, in particular, is a climactic event that takes place in a drive-in theater. That’s not how King’s novel ends, but the scene allowed Lewis Pullman AND Mackenzie Leigh learn acrobatics.

“‘My body was broken afterward,’ Pullman notes. ‘I really enjoyed throwing my body around and learning from our stunt doubles how the whole process works,’ Leigh says. ‘I didn’t have any acid test in terms of…’ She laughs because, again, she’s making a pun.”

At the end of King’s story, Ben Mears and young Mark Petrie are the only survivors after destroying Barlow in the Marsten House and flee as a fire engulfs the town.

Now, it still looks like that will happen based on Leigh’s “pun.” Now, Leigh’s character, Susan Norton, returns as a vampire in the divisive epilogue, having been “killed off” prior to these events.

It will be interesting to see how big the final twist is. But there’s nothing new about changing things when adapting books to movies.

I kind of like the idea of ​​a battle taking place in a drive-in! It’s a fun setting!

In case you missed it, you can watch a clip from the film here.

The story follows author Ben Mears, “a man who returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot in search of inspiration for his next book, only to discover that his hometown is overrun by a vampire, prompting him to join a diverse group to fight the evil presence.”

Director by Gary Dauberman spoke about the film in an interview, saying, “You could make a very dry version of this film, but that’s not really my personality. It’s trying to ride the highs and lows of that wave.

“You’re having fun, and then you might get a scare, and then you’re having fun again. Hopefully in the end it feels like a full circle.”

Speaking previously about the film, Pullman said: “Gary Dauberman, the director, is really keen to do the book justice. But even the previous adaptation was a two-parter, because it’s such a big book and there are so many moving parts and so many characters.

“So there are some parts where Gary had to push and find what was really at the heart of the movie 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 sleuth, so he doesn’t want to hurt Stephen.”

He added: “So I think it’s in good hands, Gary is a really smart guy who has a keen eye for things. I think it’s not just about the jump scares, but the more conceptual and visual things that, rather than a shock that fades from your body in the next five minutes, something more visual, like a fingerprint that’s burned into your retinas like a haunting image that will wake you up in the middle of the night and you can’t get it out of your head.”

King saw the film and was impressed, saying, “It feels like a horror version of slow-burn movies like THE GREAT ESCAPE. It builds up really well.

“There are some deviations from the book that I disagree with, but overall, faithful. Best scene: Danny Glick in the hospital, trying to rip open a blood bag. Glick’s scene could have been directed by John Carpenter in his prime.”

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