Tom Holland will direct the Stephen King adaptation The Ten O'Clock People
King's The Ten O'clock People was a short story published in 1993 as part of his "Nightmares and Dreamscapes" collection and was notable for being set in Boston, Massachusetts as opposed to his familiar Maine locale. The story follows Brandon Pearson, who in trying to kick his smoking habit uncovers a frightening aspect of reality, he plans to extinguish through extreme measures.
Inspired by his own struggle with kicking the habit, "[this story] was Stephen trying to deal with his cigarette jones and the fairly new no-smoking laws back in the 90's. This film will be a modernization of the original short story, a paranoid suspense piece," commented Holland.
"With Ron Howard's The Dark Tower adaptation and remakes of Carrie and The Stand on the horizon, 2013 is shaping up to be the year of King," said producers Nathaniel Kramer and E.J. Meyers. "We're excited to be contributing to it."
The Ten O'clock People will begin filming this summer and is produced by Making Ten O'clock Productions and Holland's Dead Rabbit Films."
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Nicholaus XX
What a premise!
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Mutant
As long it's good I'll see it for sure
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SherlockHolmes2009
Sounds alittle too out there to be realistic
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