After more than a year of silence, we are back to talking about the new Salem's Lot about the casting phase for the new film adaptation of Stephen King's novel of the same name.
According to reports from Deadline, Makenzie Leigh (James White), Bill Camp (Joker - 2019) and Spencer Treat Clark (Glass) have joined Lewis Pullman (The Strangers: Prey at Night) in the cast of Salem's Lot.
Lewis Pullman will play protagonist Ben Mears, the writer who reaches the small town Salem's Lot, Maine, to focus on his new novel. There, however, lives a community of vampires, and the writer will try to convince a group of people to fight the dangerous beings.
Makenzie Leigh is Susan Norton, a resident of Jerusalem's Lot who will fall in love with Ben while Bill Camp is Matthew Burke a former high school English teacher who will help the writer. Finally Spender Treat Clark is Mike Ryerson, one of the town's simple people who will be victimized by the unfolding events.
Produced by James Wan (Malignant) together with his Atomic Monster, Salem's Lot features Gary Dauberman in the directing booth, who also appears in the project as screenwriter and executive producer.
Recall that Gary Dauberman made his directorial debut with. Annabelle 3 (2019) and, in addition to being the screenwriter of a number of hits in "The Conjuring" universe (Annabelle and The Nun: The Calling of the Evil One), he also handled the script for 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.
