After the postponement of Furious, Warner Bros has also set a release date for Salem nights (aka Salem's Lot), the new film adaptation of Stephen King's novel of the same name. According to reports from Variety, the film will debut in theaters on September 9, 2022.
Produced by James Wan (Malignant) together with his Atomic Monster, Salem nights features Gary Dauberman in the directing booth, who also appears in the project as screenwriter and executive producer.
The cast includes Makenzie Leigh (James White), Bill Camp (Joker - 2019), Spencer Treat Clark (Glass), William Sadler (The Mist), and Lewis Pullman (The Strangers: Prey at Night). The latter will play protagonist Ben Mears, the writer who reaches the small town Salem's Lot, Maine, to focus on his new novel. The place, however, is inhabited by a community of vampires, and the writer will try to convince a group of people to fight the dangerous beings.
Recall that Gary Dauberman made his directorial debut with. Annabelle 3 (2019) and, in addition to being the screenwriter of several films in "The Conjuring" universe (Annabelle and The Nun: The Calling of the Evil One), he is also the author of the script of It and It: Chapter Two by Andy Muschietti.
Published in 1975, Salem's Lot (The Nights of Salem) is Stephen King's second novel. The work was later adapted in 1979 for Tobe Hooper's two-part TV miniseries. Subsequently, the film The Vampires of Salem's Lot (1987) by Larry Cohen and Salem's Lot (2004), another television miniseries directed by Mikael Salomon.
