20 Hottest Stephen King Adaptations Currently In Development

17. Revival

Status: Announced

Release: ???

Josh Boone will pop up a few times in this rundown, thanks to his relationship with Stephen King. He's also been lined up - according to Deadline - to adapt Revival, an adaptation of King's 2014 novel about a faith healer who opens up a terrifying Pandora's Box.

This was basically King's take on Frankenstein and it's definitely one for fans who might shirk away from some of his more modern material. As of early 2016, when the project was apparently being "fast-tracked" Boone had submitted a script to Universal who have first refusal on the rights and spoke of his enthusiasm for it:

"When I read Revival, I was like, man, did you write this for me? I’d been on both sides of that pendulum. I call myself a non-believer, now, and when I moved to LA, it was like Neo being pulled out of the Matrix. Oh, my god, none of that stuff is true! But it was what I’d been taught and what I believed in since childhood. I believed in the devil, in Jesus, and even now as a non-believer, I’m still fascinated by that world and Revival is the scariest thing he’s written since Pet Sematary."

Excitingly, EW reported that Samuel L Jackson was set to play the lead, Charles Jacobs and Boone has also previously said that Russell Crowe is attached, but there's not been much talk of it since 2016. Probably because of the very odd New Mutants situation.