EXCLUSIVE: 20th/Hulu are moving forward with The Boogeyman, a two-hour film based on the Stephen King short story.
Production will be this winter/spring in New Orleans. Rob Savage (Host and Dashcam) is set to direct. 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy, Dan Levine & Dan Cohen are producing.Mark Heyman (Black Swan) has been writing the script which Scott Beck & Bryan Woods (A Quiet Place) and Akela Cooper (Malignant) wrote the original drafts.
It was originally developed by 21 Laps as a Fox film and now will find new life through Hulu. They’ll begin prep and casting quickly to start early next year.The Boogeyman was first published in 1978 as part of The Night Shift collection of short stories that King wrote over the years for magazines.
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