He’s a Stephen King hound dog so he doesn’t wanna do Stephen dirty. “So there are some parts where Gary had to press and find what was really at the heart of the movie to keep in, but for the most part, he’s really true to the book and keeping a lot of the original dialogue in there.
But also, the previous adaptation was a two-parter, because it’s such a hefty book and there are so many different moving parts and so many characters.” Pullman told. “Gary Dauberman, the director, is really keen on doing justice to the book.
Star Lewis Pullman (Top Gun: Maverick, Strangers: Prey At Night) has now said that this adaptation is much closer to the book than the mini-series that debuted back in 1979. Writer-director Gary Dauberman‘s new adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lotis currently in production.