TV adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘Lisey’s Story’ will be coming to Apple TV+

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One of the new shows we can expect from Apple’s new TV+ service is an adaptation of a Stephen King novel. According to Hollywood Reporter, Apple has ordered an eight-episode series based on Lisey’s Story. King himself will be writing the episodes and Bad Robot Production’s J.J. Abrams and Ben Stephenson will be producing the show. Julianne Moore has signed on to be the lead as well as executive producer for the Warner Bros. Television show. Moore will be playing a widow who looks into her husband’s dark past after discovering secrets and unearthing suppressed memories that surfaced a couple of years after his death.

Netflix debuts ‘Cloverfield Paradox’ right after Super Bowl

Netflix has done something no streaming service has done before, drop a title it hasn’t promoted right after releasing its first trailer. It was reported before that the streaming service acquired Paramount and Bad Robot’s Cloverfield sequel and a Super Bowl spot promoting the film would come out. What hasn’t been announced was that Netflix will be making the film available for streaming right after the end of the Big Game. No other promotions have been done for the film ahead of this announcement. It’s a bold move but with a big audience it can be considered a wise move, too. The Super Bowl drew an average of 111.3M people in 2017.

As Deadline points out, this unusual marketing strategy complements the non-traditional marketing campaigns the original Cloverfield has done. Netflix describes the film’s plot as such: “In the near future, a group of international astronauts on a space station are working to solve a massive energy crisis on Earth. The experimental technology aboard the station has an unexpected result, leaving the team isolated and fighting for their survival.” It’s directed by Julius Onah and produced by J.J. Abrams and Lindsey Weber and stars Daniel Brühl, Roger Davies, Elizabeth Debicki, Aksel Hennie, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Chris O’Dowd, John Ortiz, David Oyelowo, and Zhang Ziyi.

J.J. Abrams to produce new show for HBO about space colonies

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J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot Productions are at it again. He’s working on another show for HBO just hot on the heels of Westworld. This time the show will be called Glare and Abrams will also been an executive producer on the show. Details are scarce at the moment but the pilot is going to be written by Javier Gullón. He will also serve as an executive producer for the show. The episodes will be an hour long, too. But there is no word yet how many episodes there will be and when it will air.

Source: io9