Stephen King Hypes Up New SALEM'S LOT Movie Saying "It Feels Like Old Hollywood"
For some reason, Warner Bros. placed the new film adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot on the shelf and they’ve been figuring out when and how to release it. We recently reported that the studio was considering just releasing it on the streaming service Max, which would be a shame.
I’ve seen a trailer for this movie and I loved what it teased! I was seriously impressed with the footage that I saw and now the creator of Salem’s Lot, Stephen King, is also hyping up in the vampire horror movie! He said on social media:
"It feels like a horror movie version of slow-burn movies like THE GREAT ESCAPE. It builds very well. There are diversions from the book I don't agree with, but on the whole, faithful. Best scene: Danny Glick in the hospital, trying to claw down a blood bag. The Glick scene could have been directed by John Carpenter in his prime."
I love the kinds of movies that he is describing here and now I’m even more excited about watching the movie! Hopefully, WB makes the right decision and releases Salem’s Lot in theaters so horror fans can watch it on the big screen!
Lewis Pullman (Bad Times at the El Royale, Top Gun: Maverick) stars in Salem’s Lot, and he will take 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.”
When previously talking about the movie, Pullman said: "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 added: "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."
The movie comes from director Gary Dauberman and also stars Jordan Preston Carter as Mark Petrie, Alfre Woodard as Dr. Cody, Makenzie Leigh as Susan Norton, John Benjamin Hickey as Father Callahan, and William Sadler in an unannounced role. James Wan is a producer of the film.