British filmmaker Paul Greengrass is set to adapt the Stephen King novel Fairy Tale for the screen, so reports Deadline. The news comes with King’s blessing with the author quoted in the trade saying: “Needless to say, I’m a Paul Greengrass fan and think he’s a wonderful choice for this film.”
The story revolves around ‘a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for their world or ours.’
The film is a little different from Greengrass’s previous work, which includes tur stories like United 93 and 22 July, and most recently the western News of the World (pictured).
There isn’t a studio, distributor or streamer attached as yet, but the planned film is being shopped around to many interested parties.
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