Kurt Wimmer remake of Stephen King’s Children of the Corn has been rated R

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

The pandemic didn't stop EQUILIBRIUM director Kurt Wimmer from making a new adaptation of the Stephen King story CHILDREN OF THE CORN. By following "stringent health and safety protocols", the project was able to continue filming in Australia even while most other productions around the world were being shut down. Filming wrapped back in June, and now the finished film has been screened for the Motion Picture Association ratings board.

The result: STEPHEN KING'S CHILDREN OF THE CORN has been rated R for "violence and bloody images".

Wimmer's take on the familiar concept will show 

the events leading up to, and including, the massacre of the adults of a small town in Nebraska by their children, after the adults’ irresponsibility ruins the crop and the children’s future.

Producer Lucas Foster told Variety that Wimmer's CORN has "almost nothing to do" with the 1984 version of CHILDREN OF THE CORN (which you can watch HERE). He said, 

We went back to the story and free-associated from there."

The new film stars Elena Kampouris, Kate Moyer, Callan Mulvey, and Bruce Spence.

Foster's fellow producers are Doug Barry, John Baldecchi, and Pam Collis. Executive producers are Wimmer, Mathieu Bonzon, Pascal Borno, John Fragomeni, Brian LaRoda, Keri Nakamoto, Andre Gaines, Sean Harner, and Donald P. Borchers – who produced the 1984 adaptation and directed the 2009 CHILDREN OF THE CORN (you can get that one HERE).

There's no word on when this CHILDREN OF THE CORN is going to be released, but at least the rating shows that it's going to deliver what we expect to see in one of these movies.