It was announced last year that Mike Flanagan was heading back to the world of Stephen King with a feature film adaptation of the 2014 novel Revival, attached to write, produce and potentially direct the movie for Warner Bros. Shortly after the announcement Flanagan had teased that the movie would be “bleak and mean,” and quite unlike his recent films.
Alas, it looks like Flanagan’s Revival is no longer happening.
Replying to a tweet this week, Flanagan broke the bad news. “Sadly, it’s not [happening],” he tweeted. “That project won’t be moving forward unfortunately.”
Sadly, it’s not. That project won’t be moving forward unfortunately. While REVIVAL and MIDNIGHT MASS both involve priests, MIDNIGHT MASS was conceived several years before REVIVAL was published, and similarities stop at the white collar. Really wish I could’ve done them both!
— Mike Flanagan (@flanaganfilm) January 4, 2021
Speaking with The Kingcast last summer, Flanagan had expressed excitement about bringing King’s Revival to the screen. He told the podcast, “What I love about it is it’s a return to cosmic horror, which I think is so fun. It is relentlessly dark and cynical and I’m enjoying the hell out of that. This is just bleak and mean and I like it for that. I haven’t gotten to end a movie that way since Absentia, maybe? Maybe Ouija? This one was a really fun piece of material for me because I get to be like, ‘Oh, you want a dark ending? Okay. Cool. Get ready.’“
“I will be very curious to see if they let me make it,” Flanagan somewhat prophetically added with a laugh at the time, while also noting that King himself loved the first draft of the script.
Revival “focused on the relationship between a heroin-addicted musician and a dubious faith healer with a hidden agenda. The minister is obsessed with trying to find a way to communicate with his departed wife and child but ends up connecting to a Lovecraftian horror.”
Josh Boone had previously been attached to adapt Revival.
source https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3647096/looks-like-mike-flanagans-adaptation-stephen-kings-revival-no-longer-happening/
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