Trailer and Photos From the Adaptation of Stephen King's LISEY'S STORY with Julianne Moore and Clive Owen
We’ve got the first trailer and some new photos to share with you today from the upcoming series adaptation of Stephen King’s Lisey’s Story, which is being developed for Apple TV+. This looks like it’s going to be a hell of a great adaptation! This trailer is so good!
The story follows a character named Lisey Landon, and it’s set two years after her husband's death. Lisey “decides it's time to go through his office to clear out his papers. Scott Landon was a bestselling novelist and Lisey has been besieged by people wanting to buy any of his unpublished work but she is determined not to let that happen. As she begins the process of cleaning, she is contacted by an unsavory character who claims that if she does not turn over the papers, he will make her suffer the consequences. Finding strength she did not know she had and never used during their marriage, Lisey refuses, and true to his word, 'Zack McCool' begins to stalk her. Lisey begins to remember strange events from her marriage that she had suppressed and finds clues that may help save her life."
The concept of the story was inspired by King’s experience when he was involved in a serious accident in June 1999. The idea for the novel sprang from a sudden realization he had when he came home from the hospital and saw that all of his belongings were in boxes. Because of that, he saw a vision of what his studio would look like after his death. When talking about why she decided to join the project, Moore explained to EW:
"I was attracted to it because of Stephen, and also because it was something that was so personal to him. One of the things that's amazing about Stephen and his writing is that he's able to explore human relationships but in a fantastical way. [This story] was sort of investigating the idea of an adult, mature relationship and a long-term one — a marriage — and what it meant to them personally, the secrets that they shared."
King explains that he kept the rights to the story to himself because he is the one that wanted to adapt the story. He was inspired to press forward on it after watching The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. He explained:
"I looked at that thing and I said to myself, my goodness, this guy Tom Rob Smith wrote the whole thing. He wrote all eight or nine episodes, and I thought, well, if he could do that, and bring it home and do such a great job, what about Lisey?
"The whole form of longform TV is opened up in a way that it wasn't before. You have a chance to do more. You can be a little more graphic with language and with sexual situations and with length, [and have] the chance to do something that has that kind of spread, texture, and a little more nuance. For guys like me, it's been great.’
For those of you who enjoyed the book, you’ll be happy to learn that the series is “incredibly faithful to its source material, right down to all the genre-hopping.” Moore says, "It's all in there. Because there's so much in it — psychological horror, romance, mystery, a science-fiction-like quality, sort of scary brutality — sometimes I was like, holy cow, what now?"
Well, I’m excited to watch it! The rest of the cast includes Dane DeHaan, Joan Allen, Clive Owen, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. It was directed by Pablo Larraín. Now, check out the trailer photos! The series will premiere on Apple TV+ on June 4th.
