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James Wan is producing a new take on Stephen King‘s vampire story Salem’s Lot for Warner Bros. and New Line, with Gary Dauberman (It, The Nun, Annabelle Comes Home) attached to write the script and also direct the film. THR brings us some new casting news tonight, with Jordan Preston Carter, Nicholas Crovetti and Cade Woodward all signing on.
THR reports, “Carter (DMZ) will play Mark Petrie, a 12-year old boy who becomes a key member of the group fighting the evil. Crovetti (Big Little Lies) is Danny Glick, who becomes the town’s first vampire and helps turn other townspeople into bloodsuckers. Woodward (A Quiet Place) is Ralph Glick, his brother who mysteriously disappears.”
Salem’s Lot will take a bite out of theaters on September 9, 2022.
“In Salem’s Lot, author Ben Mears (Lewis Pullman) returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot in search of inspiration for his next book only to discover his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.”
The known cast at this time also includes Pilou Asbæk, John Benjamin Hickey, Makenzie Leigh, Bill Camp, Spencer Treat Clark, Alfred Woodward, and William Sadler.
Fresh off Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Tobe Hooper directed the very first adaptation of Salem’s Lot back in 1979, and a new mini-series followed in its wake more recently, in 2004.
Roy Lee and Mark Wolper will also produce the new movie, with Dauberman exec producing.
Cade Woodward in ‘A Quiet Place’