In the project for 25 years … he has been one of the novels of Stephen King’s fans and he will eventually adapt to the movie theater!

After writing the script for the movie theater, Adaptation of Stephen King Marc or Craving, made by Francis Lawrence and scheduled for October 1, JT Mollner will write and identify another work by a famous American author: a little girl who loved Tom Gordon.

Published in 1999, this psychological thriller follows Trisha, a 9 -year -old girl who is lost in a huge Maine forest, only her walkman, little food and her imagination. Her only comfort: listening to baseball matches and thinking about her character, the check Tom Gordon. Then starts through a long wandering forest, with ritual softened tests. But nature may not be the only thing that fears …

Psychological horror

Little girl who loved Tom Gordon Is a book in Stephen King’s work. It moved from visceral horrors to study more intimate and more realistic fears based on her young heroin psychology.

Far from monstrous creatures or supernatural forces, the romance encounters the reader in anxiety of a child lost in the woods, confronting loneliness, hunger, fear, and his own thoughts. Moreover, it is a history of survival, where the boundary between imagination and reality is gradually vague.

George A. Romero wanted to make adaptation since 2000

In 2000 George A. Romero wrote the adaptation of the novel he wanted to understand. The filmmaker even played Dakota Fanning, playing Trisha, but abandoned the project for funding difficulties.

In August 2019, the project was identified with Village Roadshow Pictures, where the production of Christine Romero (the widow of Romero, who died in 2017), Roy Lee (Producer), John Berg and Ryan Silbert. In 2020, they were even thrown out of the lens Rams, but nothing will succeed.

JT Mollner’s choice

Erin Westman, President of Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, explains in the press release that the choice is trusted by JT Mollner, which we are obligedJT is a film director in front of which we believe that he has promised a brilliant future. Throughout his work, he creates characters – and especially young characters – who are so convincing, heartbreaking, and moving that they are leaving the screen. This is what Stephen King also does on paper.

Survival and “The little girl who loved Tom Gordon” is timely. This story, which we have been planning for a long time, is an ideal director that Stephen King’s readers are most appreciated by one of the novels. “

The release date has not yet been announced. Meanwhile, Stephen King fans will be able to detect adaptation Walk The cinema on October 1 (at the top of this article shows a trailer), as well as the IC series: Welcome to Derry, a pre-cult film available at HBO Max as well as in October. A new adaptation to Glenn Powel in the role of the title was also announced on November 5.