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Disney+ is betting on horror and Stephen King for his next film

Hulu will adapt a short story by Stephen King, halfway between horror and psychological thriller.

In the catalog of Disney+the chills are rather rare. With its mainly family positioning, the platform does not really have a reputation for producing genre monsters, even if it has recently added some classics of the genre to its catalog. However, the arrival of Star in our green regions, a new, more mature destination for Disney+allows the firm to reshuffle the cards.

It can thus add series Huluformerly reserved for American spectators. This is how we were able to discover Pam & Tommy or Only murderers in The Building. As for feature films too, we should have something to entertain ourselves in the coming years. Deadline announces that the platform is developing a feature film adapted from a story by the very famous Stephen King.

Tea Boogeyman will treat itself to an incursion on the small screen, on Hulu in the United States and on Star in France. The short story, published in 1978 in the collection Night Shiftfollows Dr. Harper, a psychiatrist, and his patient Lester billingwhose three children died mysteriously a few years earlier. Deaths that could be linked to Boogeymanthe bogeyman in French. As he tells this story, Lester billing finds himself confronted by the horrible beast. Who will be his next victims?

A real horror movie

To stage this new adventure, Hulu recruits a regular of the genre. The platform called on Rob savage. The filmmaker is at the origin of Hosta horror film that follows friends who host a Zoom seance and discover they’ve let an evil spirit into their home.

In the casting, we will find among others David Dastmalchian (The Suicide squad)Marin Ireland (Y: Tea Last Man)Vivien Lyra Blair (bird box) and Madison Hu (Travelers). They will give the reply to Chris Messina and Sophie Thatcher. The latter is doing a lot of talking about her at the moment, for her performance in Yellowjackets on show time. She also made a notable appearance in The Book of Boba fett. She should also return to the Star galaxy Wars In the coming years.

In 2023 on Disney+

As you can imagine, this new production will not be visible immediately. According to information from Deadlineit will be possible to find out in 2023. We will therefore have to be patient, fortunately, the productions inspired by the works of Stephen King are numerous. We have things to get our teeth into…

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