This director is in talks to direct Stephen King’s Cujo for Netflix
- Darren Aronofsky is in negotiations to direct Netflix's film adaptation of Stephen King's novel Cujo, according to the InSneider newsletter.
- Producer Roy Lee is attached to the project, with no writers or actors currently linked to the film.
- Cujo tells the story of a kind dog that turns into a killer due to rabies, trapping a mother and her son inside a car.
- This project marks Aronofsky's first Stephen King adaptation, adding to a busy year for King adaptations.
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Darren Aronofsky May Remake Stephen King's CUJO for Netflix
Cujo, the vicious St. Bernard who terrified both ’80s kids and adults alike, is getting another shot at cinematic success. This time, from one of the unlikeliest of directors. According to a report from Deadline, it appears that Cujo, based on the novel by Stephen King about a rampaging killer dog, is getting a remake for Netflix. And the person behind the camera is none other than Black Swan and The Whale director Darren Aronofsky. The original…
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Cujo is one of my favorite Stephen King books, the first under his own name where the supernatural is ambiguously psychological (Stanley Kubrick took it upon himself to nudge The Shining thataway; the novel was full of straight-up ghosts), but the 1983 Cujo movie was too prosaic. — Read the rest The post How does "Darren Aronofsky's Stephen King's Cujo" sound to you? appeared first on Boing Boing.
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