Alfre Woodard to Play Dr. Cody in Gary Dauberman’s Salem’s Lot Adaptation

Oscar nominee and Emmy and Golden Globe winner Alfre Woodard (Cross Creek, Miss Evers’ Boys, See) has joined New Line Cinema and filmmaker Gary Dauberman’s Salem’s Lot adaptation as Dr. Cody, in response to Deadline. In Stephen King’s novel, Dr. Cody is a male character, Jimmy Cody, who assists Ben Mears in battling the vampires who’ve infested Jerusalem’s Lot.

Lewis Pullman (Unhealthy Instances on the El Royale) will play Ben Mears, with Emmy nominee Invoice Camp (The Evening Of) as Matthew Burke, Makenzie Leigh (The Assistant) as Susan Norton, and Spencer Deal with Clark (Animal Kingdom) as Mike Ryerson. Manufacturing on the film is scheduled to start this month in Boston.

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Within the 1975 horror novel, writer Ben Mears returns to the city of Jerusalem’s Lot (‘Salem’s Lot for brief) to jot down a e-book a couple of home that has haunted him since childhood solely to search out his remoted hometown infested with vampires. Whereas the vampires declare extra victims, Mears convinces a small group of believers to fight the undead.

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Dauberman is directing and writing the screenplay for producer James Wan (Conjuring universe, Noticed franchise). This would be the newest King mission Dauberman has tailored after writing the screenplays for 2017’s IT and 2019’s IT Chapter Two, with each movies directed by Andy Muschietti.

Wan will produce Salem’s Lot alongside his Atomic Monster associate Michael Clear, Vertigo’s Roy Lee, and Mark Wolper. Dauberman, who labored with Wan on 2014’s Annabelle and The Nun and made his directorial debut with the sequel Annabelle Comes Home, will govt produce. Government producers additionally embody Michael Bederman, Atomic Monster’s Judson Scott, and Vertigo’s Andrew Childs. 

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Salem’s Lot was beforehand tailored right into a miniseries in 1979, directed by Tobe Hooper, with David Soul enjoying the function of Ben Mears. The film was adopted up by the 1987 movie A Return to Salem’s Lot from Larry Cohen. In 2004, the story was tailored into one other TV miniseries starring Rob Lowe as Ben Mears. This adaptation was written by Peter Filardi, who at present serves as a co-creator, co-writer, and govt producer for Epix’s Stephen King sequence Chapelwaite, based mostly on King’s quick story Jerusalem’s Lot.