Stephen King's SALEM'S LOT Casts John Benjamin Hickey as Father Callahan
The film adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot has cast John Benjamin Hickey (Pitch Perfect, Flags of Our Fathers, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and The Taking of the Pelham 123) in the big role Father Callahan. He is the local Roman Catholic priest of the small Maine town of Jerusalem's Lot.
Hickey joins previously announced Lewis Pullman as Ben Mears, Alfre Woodard as Dr. Cody, Makenzie Leigh as Susan Norton, Bill Camp as Matthew Burke, Spencer Treat Clark as Mike Ryerson, and Pilou Asbæk as Straker.
In the movie, Ben Mears is “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.”
Gary Dauberman, who previously produced New Line’s two-part adaptation of King’s It, wrote the script and is directing the film, and it will shoot in Boston.
Source: Deadline