With the Stephen King craze in full effect, James Wan and Gary Dauberman, the producer and writer collaborators behind the creation of The Conjuring universe, are teaming up to adapt Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot.
Dauberman is set to write the script while Wan will produce along with Roy Lee and Mark Wolper. The premise of King’s novel told the story of
a writer who returns to his hometown, Salem’s Lot, in order to write about an abandoned mansion in the small town. As he discovers the home has been bought by a mysterious man from Europe, the man also realizes that townspeople are slowly being turned into vampires. The writer bands together with a ragtag group to stop the spread of vampires, with the final confrontation happening in the house with the mysterious man.
While Lot has never been adapted to the big scree, similarly to the IT mini series, it has been translated to the small screen. A 1979 mini-series starred David Soul as the writer and a sequel in 1987 followed. Rob Lowe starred in a more recent adaptation that was made by TNT in 2004.
