Bruce Willis Headed to the Stage for Stephen King’s Misery
Bruce Willis has gone from one of Hollywood’s most lovable and likable leading men to a single-expression curmudgeon over the years. Maybe a trip to Broadway will do him some good!
THR reports that Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures is bringing an adaptation of Stephen King’s novel Misery to Broadway and, faster than you can say Birdman, has enlisted Bruce Willis to star.
Willis will make his Broadway debut opposite Obie Award-winning actress Elizabeth Marvel (Other Desert Cities, House of Cards) in the play written by two-time Academy Award winner William Goldman (The Princess Bride, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), who also wrote the screenplay for the 1990 film that starred Kathy Bates in her Oscar-winning turn as Annie Wilkes.
Willis will play the housebound writer Paul Sheldon, who becomes a prisoner of Wilkes, who will be played by Marvel.
Will Frears (Omnium Gatherum) has signed on to direct the play that will make a limited run in the fall at a theater to be announced.
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