Watch for our full interview with Dauberman soon. Dauberman has experience in bringing Stephen Kings characters. I think the cool thing about ‘Salem’s Lot though is there’re so many stories to tell within it.”ĭauberman is working on the script now, although a director, cast and release date all remain unconfirmed for now. The script of the film has been penned by Gary Dauberman, who will also be directing the project.

When asked if he would entertain the possibility of breaking ‘Salem’s Lot into two movies the way the much longer It was split, Dauberman replies, “( ‘Salem’s Lot) does have a lot of characters, but it doesn’t have the organic - It felt very organic to break up in two parts, and this one really doesn’t. Read more: Everything You Need to Know About It Chapter Two Neither one is perfectly faithful to the novel, but these previous iterations do bring up the question of whether the book, which features dozens of characters and subplots, can effectively be translated into a single movie. ‘Salem’s Lot has in fact been adapted twice for television, both times as a two-part, four-hour miniseries, in 1979 for CBS and in 2004 for TNT. I can’t wait to bring it to the big screen, we’ve seen it on the smaller screen and it’s going to be awesome on the big screen.” “Which is why I said, ‘Hey, can we make a movie of this?’ Because we haven’t seen that in a really long time and they should be terrifying, and the novel’s terrifying, and it’s fucking great to work on. “That’s exactly what I said and that’s exactly what I thought,” he exclaims.

Dauberman tells us his goal with the new version of ‘Salem’s Lot is to make vampires frightening again.

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