Stephen and Owen King’s Sleeping Beauties Adaptation in the Works for TV
There are so many Stephen King projects in various stages of production right now that it’s getting hard to keep track of them all. Deadline is adding another to the inferno…
The site reports that Anonymous Content has landed the rights to Sleeping Beauties, the upcoming supernatural/suspense novel by horror master Stephen King and his son, Owen King. Anonymous will be partnering with the Kings to develop “Sleeping Beauties” as a TV series.
Set for a September release by Simon & Schuster‘s Scribner, Sleeping Beauties takes place in the near future in a small Appalachian town whose primary employer is a women’s prison. Something happens when the women go to sleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent. And while they sleep, they go to another place. Meanwhile, the men are abandoned, left to their increasingly primal devices. One woman, the mysterious Evie, is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Evie a medical anomaly to be studied? Or is she a demon who must be slain?
Oscar-winning producer Michael Sugar (Spotlight) and Ashley Zalta will executive produce the series for Anonymous Content. Sugar and Zalta also are executive producing Netflix’s mystery drama series “The OA,” recently renewed for a second season, and the high-profile upcoming Netflix series “Maniac,” starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill with Cary Fukunaga directing, which is set to go into production at the end of summer. Sugar’s series credits also include Cinemax’s “The Knick” and Netflix’s “13 Reasons Why.”
Stephen King has published more than 60 novels, books, and short-story collections, which have sold 350 million-plus copies. Many have been adapted for film and television, most recently features It and The Dark Tower, limited series “11.22.63,” and the upcoming horror series “Castle Rock,” both for Hulu with J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot.
Owen King and his brother and fellow writer, Joe Hill, are developing their original feature script Fade Away as a television series for Miramax and Miguel Sapochnik.
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