Stephen King's LATER Is Getting a Series Adaptation From Blumhouse and Lucy Liu Will Star
Blumhouse Television has acquired the rights to Stephen King’s bestselling novel Later, and they will adapt it into a limited series. Series creator Raelle Tucker (True Blood) wrote the pilot script, and Lucy Liu is set to star in the series. This is a fantastic supernatural story that is sure to make a great series!
The story for Later centers around “a literary agency owner, Tia, who is raising her son Jamie alone, and who finds herself on the brink of professional ruin when her star author client dies before turning out the work that will make her agency financially whole. Jamie has the supernatural ability to talk to the dead, all of whom tell him the truth. This is very helpful when he talks to the dead author and feeds the contents of the book to his mother, who writes it herself and publishes it under the author’s name, to great success. But this gift can be used for more nefarious purposes. Tia’s police detective girlfriend figures out what the boy can do, and soon the youth gets over his head in the spirit world, as Danny Torrance did in King’s The Shining.”
King said in a statement, “I’ve wanted to work with Jason Blum for years, and now we have TWO projects together. Go, me!” The other project that King is working on with Blumhouse is an adaptation for Netflix of Mr Harrigan’s Phone, which is one of the stories in King’s anthology novel If It Bleeds.
Jason Blum responded, saying, “I’ve wanted to work with Stephen King since before I was born which sounds impossible until you remember that it’s Stephen King.”
Tucker added, “Later is terrifying and touching and wonderfully weird – of course it is – it’s Stephen King. Adapting one of my favorite writers of all time, with an incredible partner like Blumhouse, is a dream come true.”
This is a show I’ll be looking forward to watching!
Source: Deadline