Gary Dauberman to Direct Stephen King’s ‘Salem’s Lot’

Gary Dauberman will direct the variation of Stephen King’s “Salem’s Lot” at New Line, a person with data of the deal advised TheWrap.

James Wan, Roy Lee and Mark Wolper are producing. Dauberman, who’s already connected because the screenwriter of the undertaking, may also government produce.

King wrote the novel in 1975, solely his second to be printed on the time. It follows a author who returns to the city of Jerusalem’s Lot, the place he lived as a younger boy, solely to find everybody he used to know is now a vampire. It was additionally King’s first guide to prime the New York Times Bestseller checklist. In 1979, Tobe Hooper directed a “Salem’s Lot” TV film, whereas a miniseries was launched in 2004.

Dauberman’s current credit embrace his directorial debut “Annabelle Comes Home” for New Line, in addition to the screenplays for “It,” “The Nun,” “Annabelle” and “Hell Hath No Fury.” He additionally wrote the screenplay for “It: Chapter Two” and “Swamp Thing.” “It” broke field workplace data when it was launched in September 2017 and has since change into the highest-grossing horror film of all time.

“Salem’s Lot” might be Dauberman’s sixth theatrical collaboration with New Line. His most up-to-date producing enterprise with the manufacturing studio, “The Curse of La Llorona,” debuted final Easter weekend with a $26.three million opening. He can be writing New Line’s remake of “Train to Busan.”

Dauberman is represented by Lars Theriot of Industry Entertainment, Kathleen Remington of ICM Partners, and Eric Suddleson of Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson. Wan is represented by Paradigm, Mortimer PR, Stacey Testro International and legal professional David Fox.

The Hollywood Reporter first reported the information.