New Line's film adaptation of the novel Salem's Lot will debut on Max sometime in 2024 "after repeated delays riled author Stephen King into publicly wondering where the heck the Warner Bros. film was," IndieWire reported.
Gary Dauberman's adaptation was first announced in 2019 and shot in 2021. Last month, King took to social media to say, "Between you and me, Twitter, I've seen the new Salem's Lot and it's quite good. Old-school horror filmmaking: slow build, big payoff. Not sure why WB is holding it back; not like it's embarrassing, or anything. Who knows. I just write the f[*]cking things."
The film reunites the producing teams behind horror franchises The Conjuring universe and the IT films, with Dauberman writing and directing, as well as executive producing with James Wan and Michael Clear for Atomic Monster and Roy Lee for Vertigo alongside Mark Wolper.
Salem's Lot has been adapted only for TV before. CBS had a two-part miniseries from 1979, and Rob Lowe starred in an Emmy-nominated TNT series in 2004.