A Blumhouse-produced Stephen King project will arrive on the streaming platform next month: catch a sneak preview right here.
You know what they say: you wait ages for supernatural adaptation about a kid who can communicate with the dead via a phone… and then two turn up.
We’ve already seen Joe Hill’s take on the idea be adapted earlier this year, when Scott Derrickson brought us The Black Phone. Now Hill’s father and – who knew? – fellow author Stephen King is getting his literary stab at the ‘spooky phone’ idea turned into a movie with Mr Harrigan’s Phone, which is set to release on Netflix next month.
The film is based on one of King’s more recent short stories and follows ‘Craig, a young boy living in a small town (Jaeden Martell) befriends Mr. Harrigan, an older, reclusive billionaire (Donald Sutherland), the two begin to form an unlikely bond over their love of books and reading. But when Mr. Harrigan sadly passes away, Craig discovers that not everything is dead and gone and strangely finds himself able to communicate with his friend from the grave through the iPhone in this supernatural coming-of-age story.’
American Horror Story's Ryan Murphy produces whilst The Blind Side's John Lee Hancock directs.
We’re supposed to be once again in the midst of a flurry of Stephen King adaptations, but apart from a middling adaptation of Firestarter arriving earlier this year, lots of other projects seemed to have stalled. Planned takes on The Running Man, Christine and more have gone for some time now without any updates, whilst newer adaptations of Salem’s Lot and Children Of The Corn have been filmed but removed from release schedules by their respective studios.
Still, King fans have this one to tide them over for a while at least, which you can catch when it releases on Netflix on October 5th.
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