SALEM'S LOT Star Lewis Pullman Teases the Horror of the Movie Adaptation Saying It's True to King's Books
One of my most anticipated films to be released is the new feature film adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot. I watched a trailer for this movie earlier this year and it was incredible! It looked like director Gary Dauberman did a hell of a great job! Unfortunately, the movie was removed from the Warner Bros. release schedule for some reason, and I have no idea when we’ll get to watch it!
While we wait for an update on the highly-anticipated movie, the film’s star, Lewis Pullman, talks about the film and teases the type of horror that it will entail. He also says that the director is keeping true to the book, which is exactly what I saw in the trailer.
Pullman told CB: "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. 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."
He went on to say: "So I think it's in good hands, Gary's a really smart guy who has a keen eye for things. I think, not just lean on the jump scares, but lean on the more conceptual and visual things that, rather than a shock that fades out of your body in the next five minutes, something that's more visual, like an imprint that burnt into your retinas as a disturbing image that you'll wake up in the middle of the night that you can't shake out of your head."
Pullman (Bad Times at the El Royale, Top Gun: Maverick) takes on the role of 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 his hometown is being preyed upon by a vampire, leading him to band together with a ragtag group that will fight the evil presence.”
The movie also stars Jordan Preston Carter as Mark Petrie, Alfre Woodard as Dr. Cody, Makenzie Leigh as Susan Norton, John Benjamin Hickey as Father Callahan, William Sadler in an unannounced role. James Wan is producing.