Stephen King's TOMMYKNOCKERS directed by James Wan (2020) 0

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James Wan-Directed 'The Tommyknockers' Moving Forward With Reported 2020 Release Date

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The massive success of last year's adaptation of Stephen King's IT has apparently caused many in Hollywood to take another look at the author's classic stories to bring to the big screen, even if they had previously been given a live-action remake. According to Deadline, King's The Tommyknockers is the next story to get the big screen treatment, with Universal Pictures reportedly winning a bidding war against Netflix and Sony while offering a 2020 release date.

 

Making matters even more exciting is that director of The Conjuring and Insidious James Wan will reportedly helm the picture while Roy Lee, producer of last year's IT, joins him as a producer to bring the film to life.

 

In the 1987 horror/sci-fi story, "On a beautiful June day, while walking deep in the woods on her property in Haven, Maine, Bobbi Anderson quite literally stumbles over her own destiny and that of the entire town. For the dull gray metal protrusion she discovers in the ground is part of a mysterious and massive metal object, one that may have been buried there for millennia. Bobbi can’t help but become obsessed and try to dig it out…the consequences of which will affect and transmute every citizen of Haven, young and old. It means unleashing extraordinary powers beyond those of mere mortals—and certain death for any and all outsiders. An alien hell has now invaded this small New England town…an aggressive and violent malignancy devoid of any mercy or sanity…"