Stephen King's FAIRY TALE Getting Series Adaptation From Paul Greengrass and A24
A24 is producing a series adaptation of Stephen King’s dark fantasy novel Fairy Tale. Paul Greengrass (Bourne Identity films, United 93, Captain Phillips), who wrote a script for an unmade feature film, is still attached to the project. This time the story will be told over the course of ten episodes.
The script Greengrass wrote for the film will be expanded by the filmmaker along with J.H. Wyman (Fringe, Almost Human and Debris), who will also serve as the showrunner.
The story centers on a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or ours.
“Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a horrific accident when he was seven, and grief drove his dad to drink.
“Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it.
“Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world.”
This is a great good vs. evil story, and it’s going to make for an awesome series if the creative team adapts the source material properly.
King wrote the book early in the pandemic after he asked himself, “What could you write that would make you happy?”
He said: As if my imagination had been waiting for the question to be asked, I saw a vast deserted city—deserted but alive. I saw the empty streets, the haunted buildings, a gargoyle head lying overturned in the street.
“I saw smashed statues (of what I didn’t know, but I eventually found out). I saw a huge, sprawling palace with glass towers so high their tips pierced the clouds. Those images released the story I wanted to tell.”
Peter Rice will be executive producer alongside Greengrass, Wyman and King. Greengrass will likely be involved as director.
I can’t wait to see how this show turns out!
Source: Deadline