James Wan adapting new version of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot!

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

James Wan (THE CONJURING, INSIDIOUS) and Gary Dauberman (ANNABELLE: CREATION, ANNABELLE COMES HOME) are teaming to adapt Stephen King's vampire novel SALEM'S LOT for New Line and the big screen. Dauberman will pen the script and executive produce while Wan will produce with Roy Lee and Mark Wolper. There is no director attached at this time, but I'd take Wan or Dauberman if anyone's listening. 

Published in 1975, King’s book centers on 

an author who returns to his hometown in order to write about an abandoned mansion in the small town. As he discovers the home has been bought by a mysterious man from Europe, the man also realizes that townspeople are slowly being turned into vampires. The writer bands together with a ragtag group to stop the spread of vampires, with the final confrontation happening in the house with the mysterious man.

This will be SALEM'S LOT's first time on the big screen. It was already adapted twice for TV with director Tobe Hooper's 1979 miniseries adapted for the screen by Paul Monash. That version starred David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin, Bonnie Bedelia, and Lew Ayres. Rob Lowe starred in a more recent TNT adaptation in 2004 directed by Mikael Salomon from a screenplay written by Peter Filardi and co-starring Andre Braugher, Donald Sutherland, Samantha Mathis, Rutger Hauer, James Cromwell, Robert Mammone, and Dan Byrd. 

How excited are you to hear that Wan and Dauberman will be taking on this new big screen version of King's (debatably) scariest novel? Make sure to hit us up and let us know below!