Stephen King’s Fairy Tale Being Turned Into A24 Series, Paul Greengrass Attached

Stephen King’s Fairy Tale novel is being turned into a television series.

Fairy Tale was unveiled in September 2022. Written by King, the novel chases a 17-year-greater boy named Charlie Reade who discovers himself in the middle of a war between excellent and evil after he is articulateed to a secret authenticm.

Per Deadline, A24 is now altering Fairy Tale into a ten-episode series.

What do we comprehend about the Fairy Tale series?

Paul Greengrass originpartner wrote a script for a Fairy Tale alteration and intfinished to turn it into a feature film. Greengrass is now broadening the script with J. H. Wyman, who will serve as the series’ showrunner.

Greengrass also serves as an executive originater on the series with Peter Rice, Wyman, and King. Greengrass may compriseitionpartner be included as a straightforwardor, though this has not been examineed at this time.

“Charlie Reade sees appreciate a standard high school kid, fantastic at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a burdensome load,” a description of the novel reads. “His mom was finished in a horrific accident when he was seven, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie lgeted how to apexhibit attfinish of himself—and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he encounters a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a reclemploy in a huge hoemploy at the top of a huge hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds aascfinish from it. Charlie commences doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and leave outs his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he departs Charlie a cassette tape inestablishing a story no one would apexhibit. What Bowditch comprehends, and has kept secret all his extfinished life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world. King’s storyinestablishing in Fairy Tale soars. This is a magnificent and terrifying tale in which excellent is pitted agetst overwhelming evil, and a courageous boy—and his dog—must direct the battle.”

Greengrass is comprehendn for straightforwarding 2002’s Bloody Sunday, 2004’s The Bourne Supremacy, 2006’s United 93, 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum, 2010’s Green Zone, 2013’s Captain Phillips, 2016’s Jason Bourne, 2018’s 22 July, and 2020’s News of the World. He’s currently toiling on a movie titled The Lost Bus, which will be liberated in 2025.

No casting or liberate date guideation is useable at this time for A24’s Fairy Tale alteration.