Like his father Stephen King earlier than him, Joe Hill is slowly seeing his varied works being tailored for TV and display. After the success of Locke & Key for Netflix and the short-lived NOS4A2 at AMC, Hill’s fourth novel The Fireman is coming to tv.
Hill and Walden Media are teaming as much as convey the post-apocalyptic novel to life, with Hill signed on to provide. Released in 2016, the guide is a couple of plague known as Dragonscale that spreads all through the nation and causes anybody contaminated to burst into flames. (Interesting synergy this week for Hill and his dad to have novels about hearth get adapted.) A pregnant nurse with the an infection meets a mysterious man generally known as the Fireman who’s managed to manage his Dragonscale, and now needs to do the identical so she may give beginning to her youngster.
Back in 2016 earlier than The Fireman launched, it was set to turn into a movie over at twentieth Century Fox, which clearly didn’t occur. In a press release from CEO Frank Smith, Walden expressed at pleasure in teaming up with the prolific creator. “I can’t imagine a timelier book to be developing into a series,” mentioned Smith. “The Fireman showcases a theme that Walden holds very dear — the idea of celebrating ordinary people who rise in extraordinary circumstances.”
Hill’s been having a stable run of his works being delivered to stay motion during the last decade. In addition to the aforementioned NOS4A2 and Locke (whose third season is anticipated later this yr), his quick story The Black Phone is releasing its movie adaptation in June from Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson. He’s even managed to get a few of his different quick tales tailored over on AMC’s horror anthology sequence Creepshow.
Right now, The Fireman adaptation doesn’t have a community or streaming service that it’s connected to. But followers of the guide have one thing to sit up for within the coming years, and possibly a purpose to reread the guide once more when it will get nearer to being an precise factor you possibly can watch.
[through The Hollywood Reporter]
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