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Tate Taylor Taking On Stephen King’s “Joyland”
3 May 2013 12:17 PM, PDT | FamousMonsters of Filmland | See recent Famous Monsters of Filmland news »
Tate Taylor optioned the movie rights to The Help before it came out. You know how well that worked out. Now, he’s gambling again, that Stephen King’s forthcoming bestseller Joyland, is worthy of the movie adaptation treatment. It’s likely not much of a risk on his part.
King’s novel debuts in June. John Norris of Wyolah Films will produce with Tate Taylor, who will be directing and adapting the book for the screen. Here’s the synopsis:
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of a college student who moonlights as a carnival worker. There, he confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will forever change his life. It’s got all the makings of a King potboiler, with crime, mystery, ghosts and a creepy carnival setting.
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- Andy Greene
Tate Taylor To Adapt & Direct Stephen King’s Latest Novel Joyland!
3 May 2013 7:56 AM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
The Help writer and director Tate Taylor is officially in charge for the upcoming big screen adaptation of Stephen King‘s latest novel titled Joyland! So, who dares enter the funhouse or fear? Apparently Taylor, who made his directorial debut with 2008′s Pretty Ugly People is more than ready for this challenge, ’cause he will both adapt and direct the hard-boiled thriller. At this moment we can inform you that Stephen King‘s novel arrives this June from publisher Hard Case Crime, and that the whole thing is set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, where: …college student Devin Jones arrives at the park...
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- Jeanne Standal
Tate Taylor To Visit King's "Joyland"
2 May 2013 9:52 PM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
"The Help" director Tate Taylor is set to pen and direct a film adaptation of the upcoming Stephen King novel "Joyland" for Wyolah Films.
Set in a North Carolina amusement park in 1973, the story follows a college student who moonlights as a carnival worker.
There, he confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will forever change his life.
Taylor and John Norris will produce.
Source: Deadline »
- Garth Franklin
The Help Director Tate Taylor Tackling Stephen King’s Next Book
2 May 2013 9:38 PM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
Ensuring the universal law that there shall be no less than two dozen Stephen King adaptations in the works at any given time, The Help screenwriter/director Tate Taylor has snapped up the rights to King's next work. No, it's not the Shining sequel Doctor Sleep, but Joyland, coming this June. The pulpy-looking novel is about a North Carolina amusement park in 1973, and murder. »
- Zach Dionne
Tate Taylor Set to Direct Stephen King's Joyland
2 May 2013 7:32 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Tate Taylor (The Help) has optioned Stephen King's forthcoming novel Joyland. Here's the official description of the book, which will be published in June through Titan Books' Hard Case Crime line.
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
Tate Taylor will write the screenplay adaptation and direct. The filmmaker used a similar tactic with his Oscar-nominated adaptation The Help, optioning Kathryn Stockett's novel before it was published. Tate Taylor will also produce alongside John Norris.
No production schedule was given. It should be noted that Stephen King options his novels for a small fee up front, but there is also a "ticking clock" aspect attached to the option. »
- MovieWeb
Stephen King's Joyland to get Big Screen Treatment by Tate Taylor
2 May 2013 6:00 PM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
The Help writer and director Tate Taylor has optioned the rights to Stephen King's upcoming novel Joyland, and he's looking to adapt the unpublished work into a feature film. The book won't be published until June, but I'm a huge King fan, and I'll be reading it as soon as it's released. If it's good, I'll also be anticipating the release of the movie! This is going to be a classic King story.
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
I love the carnival setting, and like most of King's work, I'm sure this is going to make for a solid movie. I also think Tate is a talented director, »
- Joey Paur
Tate Taylor Heads To Joyland
2 May 2013 5:01 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
You might assume that a story about a Stephen King novel being snapped up for the screen before publication would be about King's forthcoming Shining sequel Doctor Sleep. That's bound to happen soon, but today the news is of another book that the ever-prolific writer has waiting in the wings. It's called Joyland, and it's this one that The Help's writer/director Tate Taylor has just bagged as his next project.Taylor has form here: he also got to The Help before its author Kathryn Stockett had even finished writing it. He clearly has his finger on the publishing pulse and an eye for a hit, although you don't really need to keep much of an eye on Stephen King to know he's a good bet.Joyland, we're told, is about an employee at the titular low-rent carnival funfair, dealing with a sick child and the ongoing mystery of an old murder. »
Film Rights to Stephen King’s Joyland Acquired Before Novel’s Release
2 May 2013 4:36 PM, PDT | DailyDead | See recent DailyDead news »
Stephen King’s Joyland hasn’t even been released yet, but the film rights have been acquired. Deadline reports that The Help writer/director Tate Taylor has acquired the rights from King, and will both write and direct the adaptation.
This is a project that could move forward very quickly, as it was mentioned that right to develop the movie was only given for a limited period of time. This is something Stephen King has been doing more recently to prevent projects based on his material from being stuck in development hell.
For those unfamiliar with the novel, it revolves around an amusement park serial killer and will be released on June 4th:
“Hard Case Crime, the award-winning line of pulp-styled crime novels published by Titan Books, today announced it will publish Joyland, a new novel by Stephen King, in June 2013. Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in »
- Jonathan James
Stephen King's Joyland Option Picked Up By The Help's Tate Taylor
2 May 2013 4:08 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
It's a risk to option a book that hasn't even hit shelves yet, but it's one that paid off for The Help director Tate Taylor, who picked up the option for Kathryn Stockett's book before it became a hit. When it comes to authors putting out a popular book, Stephen King's probably a pretty safe bet. But on the other hand, adapting one of King's books for the big (or small) screen is a lofty task, and we've seen varying degrees of success in those adaptations, from Dreamcatcher (don't judge that book by its movie) to the more successful adaptations like The Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption. Where will Joyland fall on that scale? It looks like we'll eventually find out. Deadline says Taylor has been granted an option by Stephen King to adapt and direct the upcoming novel, which is set to hit shelves in June. The »
Screen Rights to Stephen King's Joyland Snapped Up
2 May 2013 3:57 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
How good is legendary author Stephen King? So good that the rights to bring his works of fiction to the big screen get snapped up before the book has a chance to be released. That's pretty friggin' good. Next on tap for Hollywood... Joyland!
Deadline reports that Tate Taylor, who launched his writing and directing career by getting the option on The Help before author Kathryn Stockett was done writing it, has gotten himself on the ground floor of another sure-fire bestseller. Taylor has been granted an option by Stephen King to adapt and direct Joyland, the King novel that will be published in June. Taylor will adapt to direct, and John Norris will produce through his Wyolah Films banner. Taylor will also produce.
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of a college student who moonlights as a carnival worker. There, he confronts »
- Uncle Creepy
Screen Rights to Stephen King's Joyland Acquired
2 May 2013 2:32 PM, PDT | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
Tate Taylor, writer-director of The Help, picked up the screen rights to Stephen King's Joyland, a new novel hitting shelves June 4th.
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
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Stephen King Options Upcoming Novel ‘Joyland’ To ‘The Help’ Helmer Tate Taylor
2 May 2013 2:14 PM, PDT | Deadline New York | See recent Deadline New York news »
Exclusive: Tate Taylor, who launched his writing and directing career by getting the option on The Help before author Kathryn Stockett was done writing it, has gotten himself on the ground floor of another sure-fire bestseller. Taylor has been granted an option by Stephen King to adapt and direct Joyland, the King novel that will be published in June. Taylor will adapt to direct, and John Norris will produce through his Wyolah Films banner. Taylor will also produce. Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of a college student who moonlights as a carnival worker. There, he confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will forever change his life. It’s got all the makings of a King potboiler, with crime, mystery, ghosts and a creepy carnival setting. The book is being published through Hard Case Crime, »
- MIKE FLEMING JR
Tate Taylor Plans a Visit to Stephen King's Joyland
2 May 2013 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »
Although the book won't hit shelves until June, The Help writer-director Tate Taylor is already eyeing an adaptation of Stephen King's latest, Joyland . Deadline reports that Taylor has picked up an option to adapt and direct the hard-boiled thriller, officially described as follows: Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever. Prior to The Help , Taylor made his directorial debut with 2008's Pretty Ugly People . He's also said to be working on a James Brown biopic. Taylor will also produce alongside John Norris and his Wyolah Films. »
Picture Perfect: A conversation with cinematographer Stephen Goldblatt
1 May 2013 10:20 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Trevor Hogg chats with Academy Award nominated cinematographer Stephen Goldblatt about being a teenage photojournalist, working with director Mike Nichols, the Oscars and the current state of filmmaking...
My sister is a painter and architect, my father was a doctor but he always wanted to be a musician, and my mother was interested in painting. I was surrounded by art in my childhood,” states Stephen Goldblatt who was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and moved with his family to the United Kingdom at the age of seven; four years later he became obsessed with photography and later as a teenager Goldblatt was hired to work for London Life Magazine owned by the Sunday Times. “I was working as a photographer when I was 18. The thing about old style film photojournalism was that you were telling a story in still pictures and not being digital, you tended to try to do »
- Trevor
Del Toro's Haunted-House Flick Adding a New Cast Member?
5 April 2013 5:41 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Del Toro's haunted-house flick to get a new cast member? According to a Variety report, this year's Oscar-nominated actress Jessica Chastain (for Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty) is in "final negotiations" to become the latest addition to the cast of filmmaker Guillermo del Toro's haunted-house movie Crimson Peak. If her signature does end up in the dotted line, Chastain will be featured next to Pacific Rim / Queer as Folk's Charlie Hunnam, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug / Star Trek Into Darkness' Benedict Cumberbatch, and one of Chastain's The Help co-stars: Emma Stone. Needless to say, for that to happen all of the aforementioned names must actually end up in the film. As per Justin Kroll's Variety article, the plot of the Legendary Pictures horror film (possibly to be handled by Universal Pictures) remains unknown. Could GdT's latest turn out to be Robert Wise's The Haunting »
- Andre Soares
Three More For Melissa McCarthy’s ‘Tammy’
21 March 2013 2:00 PM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
After the American Box Office success that is Identity Thief, it’s no surprise that people are now lining up to star in the next Melissa McCarthy road trip comedy Tammy. Written by McCarthy and her husband Ben Falcone, Tammy will find McCarthy as an overweight woman fired from her job only to discover her husband is having an affair. She decides to take a roadtrip with her heavy drinking and foulmouthed grandmother. Playing the grandmother will be Susan Sarandon, which always freaks me out because, let’s be honest, she’s getting better looking. Shirley Maclaine was once discussing the role but it appears they failed to reach a deal. Kathy Bates will play Sarandon’s lesbian friend and Mark Duplass will play a man Tammy meets on her journey. He may even be a love interest. Falcone is set to direct the film himself after the departure of The Help’s Tate Taylor. »
- Luke Ryan Baldock
Mark Duplass & Susan Sarandon Join Melissa McCarthy's 'Tammy'
21 March 2013 8:25 AM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
Though The Help filmmaker Tate Taylor was once attached to helm the road trip comedy Tammy starring Melissa McCarthy, in a film that she co-wrote with her husband and Bridesmaids co-star Ben Falcone, who has stepped up to direct the film himself now. The story follows an overweight woman (McCarthy) who is laid off from her job at Hardee’s, discovers her husband is having an affair, and goes on a road trip with her alcoholic, foul-mouthed, diabetic grandmother. Now THR reports Susan Sarandon has landed the role of the difficult grandmother, but she's not the only new cast member signing on for the comedy. More below! The same report also names Kathy Bates as the lesbian friend of Tammy's grandmother who helps the traveling duo when they get in a pickle on the road. In addition, Deadline has word that Mark Duplass has joined the project as a »
- Ethan Anderton
Susan Sarandon And Kathy Bates May Join Melissa McCarthy's Tammy
20 March 2013 9:19 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
It feels like there was no time at all between the release of Bridesmaids and the news about Melissa McCarthy's passion project, Tammy. Co-written by the Oscar nominee and her husband Ben Falcone, the raunchy comedy tells the story of a woman who loses her job and discovers her husband cheating, and decides to go on a long road trip with her alcoholic, foul-mouthed diabetic grandmother. But as much as that sounds like a winning plot, the film has had a hard time actually getting made. The Help's Tate Taylor was attached to direct at one point before dropping it, and then the same wound up happening with 30 Rock/Modern Family filmmaker Beth McCarthy. But Tammy has found its second wind in recent weeks. Taking a do-it-yourself attitude, McCarthy and Falcone announced that they would be making their co-directorial debut with the film, in addition to serving as »
Melissa McCarthy And Ben Falcone To Make Their Directorial Debut With Tammy
7 February 2013 1:32 PM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
As the old saying goes, sometimes if you want to do something right then you just have to do it yourself. Such is the case for Melissa McCarthy and her script Tammy. Back in October of 2011, following her breakthrough performance in Paul Feig's Bridesmaids, it was announced that the Mike & Molly star had written a screenplay that had been set up over at New Line. Just a couple weeks later it looked as though the project was on the fast track, as it was announced that director Tate Taylor (who had also had a breakthrough hit the past summer with The Help) has signed on to helm. In the weeks that followed Taylor ended up dropped out and was replaced by Beth McCarthy-Miler, but that was the last we heard about the comedy and that was all the way back in January 2012. But McCarthy won't be waiting any longer. »
Melissa McCarthy and Husband Ben Falcone to Co-Direct Comedy Tammy
7 February 2013 12:45 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Just yesterday we learned that Melissa McCarthy and her husband Ben Falcone, also an actor and screenwriter, had formed their own production banner and set up three new projects, and now the two continue their Hollywood takeover as they're poised to make their directorial debut. One of the first projects McCarthy attached herself to after her breakout role in Bridesmaids was a road trip comedy called Tammy, which she also co-wrote with Falcone. After a few directors became attached and subsequently dropped off—including The Help’s Tate Taylor—New Line has decided to tap McCarthy and Falcone to take the helm. Hit the jump for more. Tammy centers on a woman who takes a road trip with her diabetic grandmother (who drinks and swears like a sailor) after she is laid off from a fast food restaurant and discovers her husband’s affair. Beth McCarthy-Miller was most recently set to direct, »
- Adam Chitwood
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