Stephen King's HEARTS IN ATLANTIS Is Getting a Big Screen Adaptation
Now before you say, "Wait, wasn't Hearts in Atlantis already a movie with Anthony Hopkins and Anthon Yelchin?" The answer is yes... and no. That film was adapted from two of the stories in the book of a collection of tales by Stephen King titled Hearts of Atlantis. Those stories were called “Low Men in Yellow Coats” and “Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling.”
This new film is based on the actual title story from that book, and according to Variety, the movie will simply be called Hearts. The film is set to be directed by Johannes Roberts (The Other Side of the Door).
Hearts is set in 1966, and it's described as "a bittersweet coming-of-age story about a group of college boys and their first time away from home, their obsession and self-destruction, and what it means to be an adult in a world where, in the face of a devastating war no one understands, adults can no longer be trusted."
The story centers on a group of poor freshmen, surviving off scholarships and aid packages, who become obsessed with the highly addictive – and highly vindictive – card game Hearts and find their world starts to slowly unravel. Their grades begin to fall, and one by one they flunk out at a time when life outside college meant the draft and the jungles of Vietnam.
Like most of King's stories, this one is sure to make another great film adaptation.