Doctor Sleep Director To Adapt Stephen King’s Revival

It doesn’t look like director Mike Flanagan is done with Stephen King yet. The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Flangan, who previously adapted King’s novels Gerald’s Game and Doctor Sleep, is set to write a film based on the book Revival with an option to direct. He will also produce with Trevor Macy through Intrepid Pictures.

Here’s a synopsis of the book: The new minister came to Harlow, Maine, when Jamie Morton was a boy doing battle with his toy army men on the front lawn. The young Reverend Charles Jacobs and his beautiful wife brought new life to the local church and captivated their congregation. But with Jamie, he shares a secret obsession—a draw so powerful, it would have profound consequences five decades after the shattering tragedy that turned the preacher against God, and long after his final, scathing sermon. Now Jamie, a nomadic rock guitarist hooked on heroin, meets Charles Jacobs again. And when their bond becomes a pact beyond even the Devil’s devising, Jamie discovers that the word revival has many meanings.

Josh Boone, who went on to adapt a new version of The Stand, previously tried to do a film version of the 2014 novel but it didn’t work out. Flanagan, meanwhile, is a very popular director in the horror community, also having helmed Hush and Oculus, as well as the Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House.