\nI go back to the Stephen King novels where everything feels very real, and very grounded. I mean, Derry, Castle Rock, Jerusalem Lot, they all feel like real places in Maine. They all feel populated by real people, and I wanted the scares to feel really grounded because they’re just gonna be that much more scary. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/aside>\nWhile Stephen King\u2019s books most certainly do have a tendency to go to some extreme places (both figuratively and literally), the magic in the author\u2019s writing is his ability to ensconce readers in detailed environments and craft characters that are beautifully rendered and multidimensional. He gets you to deeply care about the protagonists of his stories\u2026 and then when he sends them all to hell, you get to enjoy the emotional ride right alongside them.<\/p>\n
This depth very much extends to monsters as well \u2013 and the vampires of Salem\u2019s Lot<\/em> are a perfect example. The soulless, bloodsucking creatures are an abomination because they are pure evil, but still look like your family, friends and neighbors. As Gary Dauberman put it,<\/p>\n\n\nVampires are\u2026 you know, they’re terrifying to look at, but also it’s about performance. It’s about their inhuman human-ness that just makes them all the much more scary.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n
Salem\u2019s Lot<\/em> tells the story of Ben Mears, an author who decides to confront a traumatic event from his childhood by returning to his hometown \u2013 Jerusalem\u2019s Lot, Maine \u2013 so that he can write a book about where it happened: the dreadful Marsten House. Ben plans to take up residency in the place, but upon his arrival he discovers that it has already been rented by a strange couple of men named Kurt Barlow and Richard Straker. As it turns out, Barlow is an ancient vampire, and Straker is his devoted servant, and together they work to feast on the entirety of the secluded town.<\/p>\nGary Dauberman has assembled a brilliant cast for <\/u>Salem\u2019s Lot<\/em><\/u>, with the major roles played by terrific actors including Lewis Pullman, William Sadler, Pilou Asb\u00e6k, Alfre Woodard, Bill Camp, Makenzie Leigh, John Benjamin Hickey, and Jordan Preston Carter.<\/p>\nWhile on stage at CinemaCon, Gary Dauberman also explained why it was that he was passionate about making the Stephen King adaptation<\/u>, having already contributed to the extensive canon by writing the screenplays for both IT<\/em> and IT Chapter Two<\/em>. The filmmaker explained that it came down to two things:<\/p>\n\n\nWell, you know, the book is one of my all time favorites in any genre; It’s terrifying. I think it’s one of the crown jewels of the King library, which is really saying something. What excites me in the same way that IT excited me is that just like IT, it has never been given the big screen theatrical experience ever\u2026 This is the first time on the big screen, and I just feel very, very honored that I get to be one of the shepherds bringing it onto the silver screen.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n
Salem\u2019s Lot<\/em> has been adapted twice previously, but as noted by Gary Dauberman, both were made as television productions. In 1979, director Tobe Hooper made a three-hour-long miniseries<\/u> that aired across two nights on CBS, and in 2004, a remake of the same length was produced for TNT<\/u> and directed by Mikael Salomon.<\/p>\n We still have a lot of questions about Gary Dauberman\u2019s <\/u>Salem\u2019s Lot<\/em><\/u> \u2013 including about how the scope of Stephen King\u2019s novel will be contained in a single feature film \u2013 but they only serve to inflame anticipation. Of course, all questions will be answered when the horror movie arrives in theaters on September 9.<\/p>\nBetween now and then, be on the lookout here on CinemaBlend for the first Salem\u2019s Lot<\/em> trailer, and to keep track of all the Stephen King adaptations that are now in the works, head over to our Upcoming Stephen King Movies and TV guide<\/u>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stephen King\u2019s Salem\u2019s Lot was first published nearly 50 years ago, but it says a lot about the work that it remains an all-time favorite for a great number of the author\u2019s so-called Constant Readers. Like any great vampire tale, it slowly creeps before jamming its teeth into your throat, telling the story of how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":96606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1651068992_Salems-Lots-Director-Explains-His-Approach-To-The-Vampire-Horror.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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