Paul Greengrass to Direct Adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘Fairy Tale’

A24 has taken on the Stephen King bestseller Fairy Tale.

The dark fantasy will be mounted as a 10-episode series. Paul Greengrass, who wrote a script and expected to direct the feature, is expected to still be in the middle of things. That script will be expanded by Greengrass and J.H. Wyman, who will be the showrunner and whose credits include Fringe, Almost Human and Debris.

Peter Rice will be executive producer alongside Greengrass, Wyman and King. Greengrass will likely be involved as director, reportedly, but his deal is not yet done. The other deals have closed.

Published by Scribner, King’s Fairy Tale follows a 17-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a portal and enters a terrifying world where good and evil are at war. The stakes of both worlds are immense. The magic in the tale is King taking his time to frame out the world of the teen, Charlie Reade, and a kindness he extends that eventually rewards him with a magic sundial that gains him entry into the portal. That leads to the epic battle of good and evil.

via Deadline