EXCLUSIVE: MGM has set Alex Ross Perry to adapt and direct The Dark Half, a new adaptation of the 1989 Stephen King bestseller. Perry popped after writing, directing and producing Her Smell, the dr…
, the drama that premiered at 2018 Toronto, and for which Elisabeth Moss is Independent Spirit Awards nominated for her portrayal as a self destructive rock star.
Perry plans a reinvention of a story first turned into a 1993 MGM film by the late zombie impresario George Romero. That film starred Timothy Hutton as an author whose books sell okay and have a literary vibe to them. They don’t sell nearly as well as grisly crime thrillers he writes under an alter ego. Once his pseudonym is exposed, the author and his wife decide to give the other author a ceremonial burial.
The prolific King wrote the novel as a reaction to being outed for secretly writing thriller novels under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. I still remember when he owned up to it, as it unlocked a treasure trove of page turners for voracious fans of his work like myself, who was gobbling up everything he wrote and then suddenly there were booksand a few others that immediately became bestsellers when exposed by a bookstore clerk who figured out the ruse.
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