Sam Raimi to Produce New Stephen King Adaptation From ‘Final Destination’ Directors
Somehow, over the course of both Stephen King and Sam Raimi‘s long and storied careers, the two horror icons have never worked together. That will change with Searchlight Pictures’ upcoming adaptation of King’s 1996 novel Desperation, which Raimi is set to produce through his Ghost House Pictures. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Zach Lipovsky and Adam B.
- ▪Somehow, over the course of both Stephen King and Sam Raimi‘s long and storied careers, the two horror icons have never worked together.
- ▪That will change with Searchlight Pictures’ upcoming adaptation of King’s 1996 novel Desperation, which Raimi is set to produce through his Ghost House Pictures.
- ▪According to the Hollywood Reporter, Zach Lipovsky and Adam B.
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Somehow, over the course of both Stephen King and Sam Raimi‘s long and storied careers, the two horror icons have never worked together. That will change with Searchlight Pictures’ upcoming adaptation of King’s 1996 novel Desperation, which Raimi is set to produce through his Ghost House Pictures. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein, directors of 2025’s Final Destination Bloodlines, are in talks to direct. Ryan Brennan will write the script. Desperation was published at the same time as The Regulators, its “mirror novel” that King published under his pseudonym Richard Bachman.
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