{"id":725517,"date":"2026-08-03T05:35:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T05:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/725517\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T05:35:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T05:35:27","slug":"stephen-king-movie-desperation-in-the-works-from-final-destination-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/725517\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen King Movie Desperation in the Works From Final Destination Duo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/stephen-king-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_stephen-king-2_1\" data-tag=\"stephen-king-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen King<\/a>\u2018s Desperation is headed to the big screen, with Searchlight bringing together some high flying names to develop a take on the 1996 novel by the horror maestro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn-demand filmmaking duo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/zach-lipovsky\/\" id=\"auto-tag_zach-lipovsky_1\" data-tag=\"zach-lipovsky\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Lipovsky<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/adam-b-stein\/\" id=\"auto-tag_adam-b-stein_1\" data-tag=\"adam-b-stein\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam B. Stein<\/a> are in talks to direct. And in a first, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/sam-raimi\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sam-raimi_1\" data-tag=\"sam-raimi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Raimi<\/a> and King will be working together on a project, with Raimi producing along with his Ghost House Pictures partner Robert Tapert. Ryan Brennan is writing the script.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tPer the logline: \u201cStranded in a remote desert town where something evil has awakened, a group of travelers must fight to survive when a sadistic, possessed cop turns routine arrests into a relentless fight for their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLipovsky and Stein became hot commodities in Hollywood last summer thanks to the sleeper hit Final Destination: Bloodlines, and the two have a full schedule of projects in the works, including the short story adaptation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/final-destination-bloodlines-filmmakers-long-lost-1236420479\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Lost<\/a>, set up with Amblin and Universal, and writing duties on Chris Columbus\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/gremlins-3-final-destination-screenwriters-1236371957\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">third Gremlins movie<\/a>, as well as an animated Venom movie and Metal Gear Solid, both at Sony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tStein and Lipovsky are also producing, with Romel Adam and\u00a0Jose Ca\u00f1as\u00a0executive producing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSVP of production\u00a0Taylor Friedman\u00a0and creative exec\u00a0Cameron Chidsey\u00a0are overseeing for Searchlight, reporting to heads of production and development\u00a0DanTram Nguyen\u00a0and\u00a0Katie Goodson-Thomas. Mahdi Salehi at Hansen Jacobson handled the deal on behalf of Ghost House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tKing properties have been particularly hot over the past decade, with last year alone bringing It: Welcome to Derry, The Long Walk, The Life of Chuck and The Running Man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tStein and Lipovsky are repped by Verve, Ground Control and Jamie Feldman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tRaimi, the pioneering horror maestro behind Evil Dead as well as the original Spider-Man trilogy, is repped by CAA. 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