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A Bernhardiner who terrorized his surroundings by a bite of a rabid bat is the scary star in Stephen King’s horror novel “Cujo”. In 1983 he was staged for the cinema after many other successful King adaptations by Lewis Teague.
At that time, the critics showed their thumb down unison (even if the money bubbled on the box office), now the film has its own cult community. Stephen King even enclosed the film adaptation with his determination that Dee Wallace, one of the best representations of one of his characters showed.
Horror film expert produces “Cujo”
That may also be the reason why Netflix has now made the plan to film “Cujo” again. As a producer is loud “Variety” Roy Lee (“Hidden”, “Barbarian”) act – and thus definitely an expert in the field of the new horror film.
What has not yet been determined is who writes the script and will direct the script. The cast has also not yet been found at this early stage of development. Whether a guest role for Dee Wallace, Danny Pintauro or Daniel Hugh Kelly in front of the camera. For Danny Pintauro we went to “Cujo” at “Who will be the boss here?” further. He played in the American sitcom for eight years.
Stephen King and no end
According to Stephen King, films have long since formed their own subgenre of the cinema, which with “the convicted” and “Stand by Me” not only contains classics of the horror film. The fascination for the fabrics of the never -tired writer -wrote writer is also unbroken. Edgar Wright (“Shaun of the Dead”) is currently adapting Kings dystopian action thriller “The Running Man” with Colman Domingo, Glen Powell and Josh Brolin in the leading roles, while Mike Flanagan (“Doctor Sleeps Awakens”) recently the short story “Life of Chuck” (with Tom Hiddleston and Chiwetel EjioFOR) for the large canvas. A creepy short story Kings also followed the Slasher “The Monkey”, which developed into a small hit.
With “Welcome to Derry” (HBO) there will soon be an “ES” prequel and Mike Flanagan tries to be a series version of King’s debut novel “Carrie” (Amazon Prime Video).