Revival film planned by Josh Boone: The movie will be an adaptation of Stephen King’s 2014 novel.
A Revival film is being plotted by Josh Boone. The planned movie will be based on Stephen King‘s source novel, which was first published in 2014, and is being fast-tracked to the movies with Boone leaving his long-planned adaptation of the author’s The Stand to one side, for the moment.
Boone, who directed The Fault In Our Stars, has adapted Revival on-spec, and now Producer Michael De Luca will submit the screenplay to Universal, where he has a first-look deal.
Revival’s story spans five decades, and is a tale of addiction, fanaticism, and what might exist on the other side of life. Here’s the description from Amazon.
In a small New England town, over half a century ago, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. Charles Jacobs, along with his beautiful wife, will transform the local church. The men and boys are all a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls feel the same about Reverend Jacobs—including Jamie’s mother and beloved sister, Claire. With Jamie, the Reverend shares a deeper bond based on a secret obsession. When tragedy strikes the Jacobs family, this charismatic preacher curses God, mocks all religious belief, and is banished from the shocked town.
Jamie has demons of his own. Wed to his guitar from the age of thirteen, he plays in bands across the country, living the nomadic lifestyle of bar-band rock and roll while fleeing from his family’s horrific loss. In his mid-thirties—addicted to heroin, stranded, desperate—Jamie meets Charles Jacobs again, with profound consequences for both men. Their bond becomes a pact beyond even the Devil’s devising, and Jamie discovers that revival has many meanings.
It seems like Boone is a huge fan of King’s. He spoke of his addiction to his novels.
“I’ve read every book Stephen King has written, multiple times; he taught me how to write characters,” Boone said to Deadline, the source of the Revival film news. “When I read The Stand, it was literally from under my bed. I was raised by evangelical Christians, who believed in The Rapture. I wasn’t allowed to read Stephen King books for a large part of my childhood. I ripped the cover off this Frank E. Peretti book This Present Darkness, a Christian bestseller, and put it on The Stand, because they were roughly the same size. I would read these books under the bed and hide them in the box spring, like normal kids stashed their pornography. My mom found my King stash and they burned the books in the fireplace. I still have a picture in a photo album of this giant pile of ashes in my parents’ fireplace.”
More on the Revival film as we get it.
