THE JAUNT: Stephen King's Time Travel Story To Be Helmed By MAMA Director

I never saw Andy Muschietti's horror film Mama, but I know Joey really liked it. I'm sure he'll be glad to hear, then, that Muschietti and his wife Barbara have just been attached to a Stephen King time travel story called The Jaunt. Deadline says that the movie adaptation is set up at Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment with Andy lined up to direct.

The story takes place in a world in which teleportation, or "jaunting," is a common practice, though people who use the method of travel must be under anesthesia. While jaunting is essentially instantaneous in the real world, if you're awake during the process, you experience nothing but motionless whiteness over hundreds or even millions of years, which - as you might expect - drives people totally insane when they finally emerge on the other side.

Sounds like a cool concept, though after reading the short story, I do wonder how they'll be able to expand the idea out into a full feature. It seems like the perfect length for a short, so they'll obviously have to add a lot to pad the story out and fit a two hour run time. Hopefully they'll be able to come up with some good sci-fi stuff to fill in the gaps.