Producer Bryan Fuller, the Emmy-nominated creator of the TV series Wonderfalls, Pushing Daisies and Star Trek: Discovery has announced his next project: a retooling of the classic Stephen King novel Christine.
Fuller will write and direct a feature film version of the novel for Blumhouse Productions, the studio outfit behind Get Out and Halloween. Deadline further reports that Fuller intends to keep the story set in the 1980s, and remain as true to King’s work as possible
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Christine, first published by King in 1983, tells the story of Arnie, an unpopular teenager who buys a run-down 1958 Plymouth Fury with the intention of fixing it up. Nicknaming the car “Christine,” he begins undergoing strange changes in personality, suddenly growing healthier and handsome and dressing like a 1950s greaser. Christine, meanwhile, begins repairing itself, and killing people around town.
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Director John Carpenter had previously adapted the novel in the 1983 film of the same name.
In addition to creating the aforementioned series, Bryan Fuller also developed the cult shows American Gods and Hannibal, and has writing credits on the genre series Heroes, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In addition to working LGBTQ themes and characters into his shows, he also has a history of employing a repertory of queer actors, including Lee Pace, Gillian Anderson, Wilson Cruz, Raúl Esparza, Portia De Rossi and Eddie Izzard.
Ken A.
Another remake. How dreadful.
mrcynical
It is still yet another adaption from a straight white author about a straight white character. How many remakes and adaptions of stephen king works to we get every year, while actual LGBT+ stories continue to get ignored, or given into the unworthy hands of Ryan Murphy?
lykeitiz
Ryan Murphy may have had a mishap or two, but he hardly has “unworthy hands”.
Maybe you’re just proving your name.
Fname Optional Lname
Stephen King has many gay fans and has been an ally of the community long before most.
Prax07
I’ll take anything from King, remake or new.
BStromberg
How people personally identify is supposed to be important, right? Gillian Anderson haS made it expressly clear that, though she had a relationship with a woman in college, she identifies as heterosexual.
Cam
This is from an article/interview with Anderson
“In 2012, Anderson said that she was bisexual, and talked about a long-term relationship with a girl she had met at college. She did it in a typical, matter-of-fact Anderson way. She said she felt she owed it to her former girlfriend, who had recently died of a brain haemorrhage, and also to her younger sister who is married to a woman.”
Nate842
You can identify as queer and be heterosexual.
Cam
I’m curious to see if this can be successful. Will the story catch on? I’m not sure it will pack the same punch, but I’m interested to see what they do with the new special effects techniques.