Longtime horror alum Greg Nicotero, of The Strolling Useless and Creepshow fame, has discovered his subsequent challenge to sort out: a TV adaptation of Robert McCammon’s Swan Music.
Per Deadline, Nicotero will govt produce the upcoming collection by his manufacturing firm Monster Company. He’ll even be tapped to direct the pilot episode, which is presently on the seek for a author. In a press launch for the present, Nicotero known as it a “[perfect] time to delve into this world. [McCammon’s] story of survival in a world endlessly modified by political distrust and worldwide intrigue intertwined with a supernatural pressure has at all times been one in all my favorites.”
Launched in June 1987, Swan Music was set in America within the aftermath of a nuclear struggle between the US and Soviet Union. The e book then focuses on quite a few survivors, one in all whom has powers that places her within the sights of an evil increase a military of followers across the nation. After its launch, it tied with Stephen King’s Distress for the 1987 Bram Stoker award and was the primary of McCammon’s works to make it on the New York Instances bestseller record.
In that very same assertion, Steve Barnett, Alan Powell and Vicky Patel—who’re co-executive producing by their Monarch Media firm—known as McCammon’s novel “extremely compelling, and in contrast to something we now have seen earlier than in movie or tv. We’re very excited to convey this world to life and may’t think about any higher companions for the collection than Greg and Brian [Witten].”
At time of writing, it’s unclear if the Swan Music will go to AMC—which has housed Nicotero’s TV ventures for over a decade and already has expertise with adapting horror novels—or elsewhere.
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