Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Looks like yet another Stephen King novel is getting the TV adaptation. This time it's SLEEPING BEAUTIES the book he co-wrote along with his son Owen King. AMC has plans to create an open-ended TV series and they have ordered a pilot script for the series set to be penned by Owen King.

Stephen King said :

I’m tremendously excited to see Sleeping Beauties brought to life in a format that will allow the story to be told as it was meant to be told, in all its mystery and drama.

Owen King added;

We’re so happy to be working with Michael, Ashley, and AMC on Sleeping Beauties. We can’t imagine a better match.

Here's the rundown on the book via Amazon:

In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?

In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when 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, a better place, where harmony prevails and conflict is rare.

One woman, the mysterious “Eve Black,” is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Eve a medical anomaly to be studied? Or is she a demon who must be slain? Abandoned, left to their increasingly primal urges, the men divide into warring factions, some wanting to kill Eve, some to save her. Others exploit the chaos to wreak their own vengeance on new enemies. All turn to violence in a suddenly all-male world.

Set in a small Appalachian town whose primary employer is a women’s prison, Sleeping Beauties is a wildly provocative, gloriously dramatic father-son collaboration that feels particularly urgent and relevant today.

This news, of course, comes on the heels of some other King TV news. In fact, it was just last week that we passed along the news that J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot is producing a mini-series based on King's novel LISEY'S STORY for Apple with Julianne Moore set to star and King himself writing all eight episodes. Oh, and let's not forget Ben Mendelsohn and Jason Bateman's adaptation of THE OUTSIDER.

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