The film changed King’s narrative thrust - which he wrote as a man’s descent into madness from the vantage point of wife and child - to a full focus on Jack Nicholson’s blocked novelist Jack Torrance. It gives the chance for a reconsideration of the indelible stamp Stanley Kubrick put on the novel with a movie King didn’t love despite the unforgettable visual images. King’s seminal horror tale The Shining is in the early stages of being mounted for the stage as a play by Simon Stephens, the Tony-winning playwright of The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time, and Ivo Van Hove, the Tony-winning director of A View From The Bridge.

It was the inspiration of Toby Emmerich when he took the reins at Warner Bros to tell the childhood part of the story in the first film, and then make a sequel that brings the gang back together as adults, bonded by a pact they made to return and confront the menace when it came back after 25 years to claim more children. The first film covers the childhood of a core group of friends who see Pennywise terrorizing their town. The Andres Muscietti-directed King novel adaptation IT doesn’t come out until September 8, but the filmmaker is already hard at work mobilizing the second installment. Rose is a once-in-a-lifetime role for an actress.” New Line

Rose and Norman undergo a fascinating transformation, sometimes horrifying, at other times touching, and occasionally both at the same time. Said Bernstein: “Stephen King’s literary universe has greatly influenced me as a writer and filmmaker, and Rose Madder is a terrifying and exhilarating thriller that will make for a compelling parable of the battle between the sexes. A battered wife married to a small-town policeman who runs the town, Rose flees, but finds that her husband has followed and is killing anyone who helps her. The filmmaker, who helmed The Debt and wrapped his first English-language film Look Away, found out King was a big fan of his TV series and was receptive when the writer-director approached on Rose Madder, a novel that was part of a thematic trilogy that focused on abused women (the others are Dolores Claiborne and Gerald’s Game, the latter an upcoming Netflix film directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Carla Gugino). It will be produced by Bread & Circuses’ Craig Flores, Primary Wave’s Brad Kaplan and Ace in the Hole’s Bernstein.

Assaf Bernstein, maybe the hottest new director in Hollywood after directing the acclaimed Israeli TV drama Fauda, has signed to direct an adaptation of the 1995 King novel Rose Madder.

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