Famend creator Stephen King has known as out Warner Bros. for holding again the brand new Salem’s Lot remake, saying he has watched the movie and it is “fairly good.”
Distribution plans for the long-awaited Salem’s Lot remake stay unclear after Warner Bros. eliminated the Gary Dauberman-directed characteristic from its launch slate final 12 months. It seems that King is as a lot in the dead of night as everybody else regardless of having watched the most recent adaptation of his 1975 novel and giving it a glowing assessment.
“Between you and me, Twitter, I’ve seen the brand new SALEM’S LOT and it is fairly good,” the legendary creator stated in a current submit on X/Twitter. “Outdated-school horror filmmaking: sluggish construct, huge payoff. Unsure why WB is holding it again; not prefer it’s embarrassing, or something. Who is aware of. I simply write the f**king issues.”
Between you and me, Twitter, I’ve seen the brand new SALEM’S LOT and it is fairly good. Outdated-school horror filmmaking: sluggish construct, huge payoff. Unsure why WB is holding it again; not prefer it’s embarrassing, or something. Who is aware of. I simply write the fucking issues.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) February 19, 2024
Dauberman’s success on James Wan’s Conjuring Universe undoubtedly performed an element in him writing and directing the Salem’s Lot remake, provided that Wan is without doubt one of the movie’s producers. It is a story a few small-town vampire plague that is already had a late-70s miniseries, however the brand new iteration nonetheless would not have a launch date.
Warner Bros. initially gave the Salem’s Lot remake a 2022 launch window, however that did not maintain because the studio pushed again its launch date to 2023 earlier than eradicating it from its schedule completely, resulting in considerations amongst some followers that the vampy flick would by no means see the sunshine of day, like a number of different tasks the studio scrapped.
It was reported in October final 12 months that Warner Bros. was trying to transfer the discharge of the Salem’s Lot remake to Max, though Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav had beforehand introduced that the corporate was strategically shifting away from direct-to-streaming releases and would as a substitute concentrate on theatrical releases.
Warner Bros. has come underneath hearth for its controversial choices in current months, which embody cancelling full or almost completed movies like Batgirl and Coyote vs. Acme to show them into tax write-offs. The studio has confronted huge backlash from followers, the inventive neighborhood, and a U.S. congressman who known as for the FTC to assessment WB’s “predatory tactic” of scrapping films for tax functions.
Adele Ankers-Vary is a contract leisure author for IGN. You’ll be able to comply with her on X/Twitter @AdeleAnkers.
